A high-frequency view of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, source rupture and fault mechanics

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 807-820

  Chen, Youlin ^a   Sammis, Charles G ^b   Teng, Ta Liang ^b  

^a Multimax Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOGRAPHS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND STRONG-MOTION SEISMOGRAMS; CHI-CHI RUPTURE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LARGE-AMPLITUDE SLIP-PATCHES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; FAULT PLANE; RUPTURE; SEISMOGRAM; STRONG MOTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745451417     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050059     Document Type: Article

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