Strong ground motion estimation during the Kutch, India earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-173

  Iyengar, R N ^a   Raghu Kanth, S T G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Empirical Green's Function; Peak acceleration; Response spectrum; Source mechanism; Strong motion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; STRONG MOTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; KUTCH; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33645749897     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-005-0006-x     Document Type: Article

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