Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) measurements in the area damaged by the 2002 Molise, Italy, earthquake

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 20, Issue SPEC. 1, 2004, Pages

  Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria ^a,d   Mucciarelli, Marco ^a   Gallicchio, Salvatore ^b   Tropeano, Marcello ^a   Lizza, Carmine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c Centro Direzionale Barricelle   (Italy)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MICROTREMORS; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL RATIO MEASUREMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELEROMETER; AMPLIFICATION; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; MICROTREMOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; VULNERABILITY;

ITALY; MOLISE;

EID: 4344582380     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1766306     Document Type: Article

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