Source spectra and site response from S waves of intermediate-depth Vrancea, Romania, earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 235-254

  Oth, Adrien ^a   Parolai, Stefano ^b   Bindi, Dino ^c   Wenzel, Friedemann ^d  

^a European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology and The Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SHEAR WAVES;

ACCELEROGRAMS; ATTENUATION FUNCTIONS; CORNER FREQUENCIES; DATA SETS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GENERALIZED INVERSIONS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; NON-PARAMETRIC; RAY PATHS; ROMANIA; S-WAVES; SITE AMPLIFICATION FUNCTIONS; SITE EFFECTS; SITE RESPONSE; STRESS DROPS; VERTICAL COMPONENTS; VRANCEA;

AMPLIFICATION;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOMETRY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 54949103675     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080059     Document Type: Article

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