Weak-motion-based attenuation relationships for Israel

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1127-1140

  Meirova, Tanya ^a   Hofstetter, R ^b   Ben Avraham, Z ^a   Steinberg, D M ^a   Malagnini, L ^c   Akinci, A ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake ground motions

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 57049103609     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03953.x     Document Type: Article

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