Model for basin effects on long-period response spectra in southern California

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 257-277

  Day, Steven M ^a   Graves, Robert ^b   Bielak, Jacobo ^c   Dreger, Douglas ^d   Larsen, Shawn ^e   Olsen, Kim B ^a   Pitarka, Arben ^b   Ramirez Guzman, Leonardo ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVE PROPAGATION;

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ATTENUATION RELATIONSHIPS; LOS ANGELES BASIN; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; REFERENCE MODELING; SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

SHEAR WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46149103094     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.2857545     Document Type: Article

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