Calibration of the specific barrier model to Iranian plateau earthquakes and development of physically based attenuation relationships for Iran

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 550-576

  Zafarani, H ^a   Mousavi, M ^b   Noorzad, As ^a   Ansari, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attenuation relationships; Iran; Random effects model; Robustness test; Specific barrier model; Stochastic approach

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MOMENT MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPECIFIC BARRIER MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STOCHASTICITY; STRONG MOTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 42249115510     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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