Surface waves in the western Taiwan coastal plain from an aftershock of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 821-845

  Wang, Guo Quan ^a   Tang, Guo Qing ^a   Boore, David M ^b   Van Ness Burbach, G ^a   Jackson, Caesar R ^a   Zhou, Xi Yuan ^c   Lin, Qing Liang ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHELUNGPU-CHUKOU FAULT; LOW-VELOCITY SEDIMENTARY WAVE GUIDES; MULTIPLE FILTER ANALYSIS (MFA); PHASE MATCHED FILTERING (PMF); WESTERN COASTAL PLAIN;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COASTAL PLAIN; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745476450     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050088     Document Type: Article

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