A note on the L'Aquila earthquake of 6 April 2009: Permanent ground displacements obtained from strong-motion accelerograms

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Rupakhety, R ^a   Sigbjornsson R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Baseline correction; L'Aquila earthquake; Long period motion; Permanent ground displacement

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROGRAMS; BASELINE CORRECTION; CENTRAL ITALY; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; EPICENTRE; MAINSHOCK; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERMANENT GROUND DISPLACEMENT; STRONG-MOTION; WIDESPREAD DAMAGE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESHOCK; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STRONG MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABRUZZI; ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 74449088009     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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