A comparison of nga ground-motion prediction equations to italian data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2961-2978

  Scasserra, Giuseppe ^a   Stewart, Jonathan P ^b   Bazzurro, Paolo ^c   Lanzo, Giuseppe ^a   Mollaioli, Fabrizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AIR Worldwide Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; DATA SETS; DISTANCE-ATTENUATION; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; ROCK CONDITIONS; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SHORT PERIODS; SITE EFFECTS; STRONG MOTION DATUM;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349850792     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080133     Document Type: Article

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