VS30, κ, regional attenuation and Mw from accelerograms: Application to magnitude 3-5 French earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 880-898

  Drouet, Stéphane ^a   Cotton, Fabrice ^a   Guéguen, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake ground motions; Earthquake source observations; Fourier analysis; Seismic attenuation; Site effects

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; FOURIER; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SITE EFFECTS;

DROPS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLIFICATION; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPECTRUM;

FRANCE;

EID: 77955158563     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04626.x     Document Type: Article

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