Ground motion environment of the Los Angeles Region

Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 483-494

  Somerville, Paul G ^a   Graves, Robert W ^a   Day, Steven M ^b   Olsen, Kim B ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

GROUND MOTION; GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION EQUATIONS; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

GEOLOGY;

EID: 34249297016     PISSN: 15417794     EISSN: 15417808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tal.377     Document Type: Article

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