High-frequency ground-motion scaling in the Pacific northwest and in northern and central California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 709-721

  Fatehi, Ali ^a   Herrmann, Robert B ^a  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VELOCITY;

GEOMETRICAL SPREADING FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION;

SEISMIC RESPONSE;

AMPLITUDE; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42649144424     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070051     Document Type: Article

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