Effects of large-scale surface topography on ground motions, as demonstrated by a study of the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2066-2079

  Ma, Shuo ^a,b   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a   Page, Morgan T ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES;

GROUND MOTIONS; LARGE-SCALE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; NEARBY FAULTING;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULTING; GROUND MOTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE SCATTERING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; LOS ANGELES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37449029764     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070040     Document Type: Article

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