The little red hill seismic experimental study: Topographic effects on ground motion at a bedrock-dominated mountain edifice

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 A, 2010, Pages 2219-2229

  Buech, F ^a   Davies, T R ^a   Pettinga, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAMPLIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD DATA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; HALF-WIDTH; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; NEW ZEALAND; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY ANALYSIS; RED HILLS; ROCK MASS; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC GROUND MOTIONS; SEISMIC RECORDS; SEISMIC SHAKING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL RATIOS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS;

BUILDINGS; DEGRADATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LANDFORMS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFICATION;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; LAKE COLERIDGE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 77957744958     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090345     Document Type: Article

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