Horizontal-to-vertical ground motion relations at short distances for four hard-rock sites in eastern Canada and implications for seismic hazard assessment

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 345-352

  Bent, Allison L ^a   Delahaye, Emily J ^b,c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eastern North America; Ground motion; H V

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

BROADBAND SEISMOGRAPH; DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; GROUND MOTIONS; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; VERTICAL GROUND MOTION;

HAZARDS;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; HARD ROCK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOGRAPH;

CANADA;

EID: 75749122336     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(22)     Document Type: Article

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