Quantifying felt events: A joint analysis of intensities, accelerations and dominant frequencies

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-38

  Souriau, Annie ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Attenuation; France; Human perception; Intensity; Peak ground acceleration; Sound of earthquakes; Spectral content

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; S-WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745056459     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-006-2843-1     Document Type: Article

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