Empirical attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in southwestern Western Australia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 572-585

  Allen, Trevor I ^a   Dhu, Trevor ^a   Cummins, Phil R ^a   Schneider, John F ^a  

^a Risk Research Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; GEOMETRICAL ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; GROUND-MOTION SPECTRAL AMPLITUDES; SEISMIC MOMENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; GROUND MOTION; MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 33645790722     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040238     Document Type: Article

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