Strong motion recordings and residual displacements: What are we actually recording in strong motion seismology?

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 635-639

  Graizer, Vladimir ^a  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

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EID: 77955596998     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.4.635     Document Type: Article

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