Observations on regional variability in ground-motion amplitudes for small-to-moderate earthquakes in North America

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2393-2409

  Atkinson, Gail M ^a   Morrison, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; ATTENUATION EFFECT; CALIFORNIA; CAMPBELL; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION MODELS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION MODELS; NORTH AMERICAN; PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTERS; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL VARIATION; SITE EFFECTS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRESS DROP;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

ACTIVE FAULT; AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; STRESS; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549110304     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080223     Document Type: Article

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