Temporal changes of seismic velocity and anisotropy in the shallow crust induced by the 1999 October 22 M6.4 Chia-Yi, Taiwan earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1800-1816

  Chao, Kevin ^a   Peng, Zhigang ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake ground motions; Fractures and faults; Seismic anisotropy; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE EFFECT; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER CRUST; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 70450173579     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04384.x     Document Type: Article

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