Development of an earthquake early warning system using real-time strong motion signals

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wu, Yih Min ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early warning system; Earthquake; Seismic hazard mitigation

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GAS HAZARDS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAPID TRANSIT; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS; GROUND-MOTION; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; SEISMIC HAZARD MITIGATION; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STRONG-MOTION; URBAN AREAS; WARNING TIME;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 40849111931     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8010001     Document Type: Article

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