The importance of in situ shear-wave velocity measurements in developing urban and regional earthquake hazard maps

19th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP 2006: Geophysical Applications for Environmental and Engineering Hazzards - Advances and Constraints

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1304-1315

  Wong, Ivan G ^a   Silva, Walter J ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Pacific Engineering and Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; EQUIVALENT LINEAR MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GROUND-SHAKING HAZARDS; RANDOM VIBRATION THEORY; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 57649087354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4133/1.2923588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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