Seismic wave propagation in basin structure from numerical modeling

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Wen, Strong ^a   Chang, Wen Yeh ^b,c   Chen, Chau Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c National Science Council   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Basin effect; Basin structure; Numerical wave propagation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BASIN; BEDROCK; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVE; SIMULATION; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247583449     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.2007.18.1.1(t)     Document Type: Article

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