Ground-motion prediction equations for the intermediate depth Vrancea (Romania) earthquakes

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-388

  Sokolov, Vladimir ^a   Bonjer, Klaus Peter ^a   Wenzel, Friedemann ^a   Grecu, Bogdan ^b   Radulian, Mircea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Prediction equations; Strong ground motion; Vrancea region

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FORECASTING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; SEISMIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

(MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; ATTENUATION MODELS; BUSINESS MEDIA; CARPATHIANS; DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECTRUM; GROUND MOTION MODELLING; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (PGA); PEAK GROUND VELOCITY (PGV); PREDICTION EQUATIONS; RAPID ESTIMATION; ROMANIA; SEISMIC EFFECTS; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SHAKEMAP; SITE AMPLIFICATION FUNCTIONS; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION (SA); SPRINGER (CO);

SEISMOLOGY;

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; SEISMIC HAZARD;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 47949089561     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-008-9065-6     Document Type: Article

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