Evidence of seismic deformation of the paved floor of the decumanus at Tindari (NE, Sicily)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 213-222

  Bottari, C ^a,b   Bottari, A ^a   Carveni, P ^c   Sacca C ^a   Spigo, U ^d   Teramo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d Archaeological Superintendence of Catania   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Elasticity and anelasticity; Fourier analysis; Site effects

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 45249092133     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03772.x     Document Type: Article

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