Empirical ground-motion prediction equations for Northem Italy using weak- and strong-motion amplitudes, frequency content, and duration parameters

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1319-1342

  Massa, M ^a   Morasca, P ^b   Moratto, L ^c   Marzorati, S ^a   Costa, G ^c   Spallarossa, D ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FORECASTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AMPLITUDE PARAMETERS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GROUND MOTION MODELLING; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; MOTION AMPLITUDES; NORTHERN ITALY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; WAVEFORMS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PEAK ACCELERATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANAS;

EID: 46149108829     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070164     Document Type: Review

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