Near-surface attenuation modelling based on rock shear-wave velocity profile

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1004-1014

  Chandler, A M ^a   Lam, N T K ^b   Tsang, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kappa; Near surface attenuation; Shear wave velocity; Upper crust

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY;

NEAR-SURFACE ATTENUATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; UPPER-CRUST;

SHEAR WAVES;

BEDROCK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SOIL DYNAMICS;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 33746800298     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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