Quantifying the spatial distribution of site response by use of the Yokohama High-Density Strong-Motion network

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 926-942

  Tsuda, Kenichi ^a   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a   Koketsu, Kazuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AMPLIFICATION; BOREHOLES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PATH-MODIFIED SOURCE SPECTRUM; SITE RESPONSE; YOKOHOMA HIGH-DENSITY STRONG MOTION NETWORK;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELEROMETER; BOREHOLE; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 33745464095     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040212     Document Type: Article

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