Accounting for site effects in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of southern California: Overview of the SCEC Phase III report

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Field, Edward H ^a,b   Anderson, John G ^b   Henyey, Thomas L ^b   Jackson, David D ^b   Joyner, William B ^b   Lee, Yajie ^b   Magistrale, Harold ^b   Minster, Bernard ^b   Olsen, Kim B ^b   Petersen, Mark D ^b   Steidl, Jamison H ^b   Wald, Lisa A ^b   Wills, Chris J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MAPS; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY;

SEISMIC HAZARDS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 6644228712     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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