Near-fault strong ground motions recorded during the morelia normal-fault earthquakes of may 2006 in Mexicali Valley, B. C., México

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1538-1551

  Munguía, Luis ^a   Glowacka, Ewa ^a   Suárez Vidal, Francisco ^a   Lira Herrera, Héctor ^b   Sarychikhina, Olga ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b Centro Nacional Alterno   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RESPONSE; CALIFORNIA; CERRO PRIETO; CERRO PRIETO GEOTHERMAL FIELD; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; GROUND DISPLACEMENT; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-SHAKING; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; NEAR-FAULT; NORMAL FAULTS; P-WAVE ARRIVAL; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STRONG GROUND MOTION; STRONG-MOTION; VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; LANDFORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GROUND MOTION; NORMAL FAULT; P-WAVE; PEAK ACCELERATION; STRONG MOTION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICALI VALLEY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69549122611     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080256     Document Type: Article

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