Strong ground motions recorded by a near-source seismographic array during the 16 August 2005 Miyagi-Ken-Oki, Japan, earthquake (Mw 7.2)

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1555-1559

  Nakahara, Hisashi ^a   Sawazaki, Kaoru ^a   Takagi, Nobumasa ^a   Nishimura, Takeshi ^a   Sato, Haruo ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array; Miyagi Ken Oki earthquake; Non linear site response; Spatial variation; Strong ground motion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PEAK ACCELERATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOGRAPH; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

EID: 33947540026     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352660     Document Type: Article

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