The spectral decay parameter kappa in Northeastern Sonora, Mexico

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 196-206

  Fernández, Avelina I ^a   Castro, Raúl R ^a   Huerta, Carlos I ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BASIN AND RANGE; EARTHQUAKE SIZE; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; ME-XICO; NON-PARAMETRIC; ROCK TYPES; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPECTRAL DECAY; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUST; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EROSION; FAULT; FRACTURE; ROCK; S-WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ATTENUATION;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA;

EID: 75649091509     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090049     Document Type: Article

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