Recorded motions of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake and implications for building structural damage: Overview

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 651-684

  Çelebi, Mehmet ^a   Bazzurro, Paolo ^b   Chiaraluce, Lauro ^c   Clemente, Paolo ^d   Decanini, Luis ^e   Desortis, Adriano ^f   Ellsworth, William ^a   Gorini, Antonella ^f   Kalkan, Erol ^a   Marcucci, Sandro ^f   Milana, Guiliano ^c   Mollaioli, Fabrizio ^e   Olivieri, Marco ^c   Paolucci, Roberto ^g   Rinaldis, Dario ^d   Rovelli, Antonio ^c   Sabetta, Fabio ^f   Stephens, Christopher ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b AIR Worldwide   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; FAULTING; INFILL DRILLING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING STRUCTURAL; CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE; DEFICIENT STRUCTURE; FRAMED BUILDINGS; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; NORMAL FAULTING; SHORT DURATIONS; STRONG MOTION DATUM;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 78751529660     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3450317     Document Type: Article

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