Derivation of a reference shear-wave velocity model from empirical site amplification

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 258-274

  Poggi, Valerio ^a   Edwards, Benjamin ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION FUNCTIONS; AVERAGE VELOCITY; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT AMPLIFICATION; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; HAZARD ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH VARIABILITY; INVERSION PROCEDURE; LOCAL RESPONSE; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; REFERENCE SITES; REFERENCE VELOCITY; REGION OF INTEREST; ROCK CONDITIONS; SEISMIC STATION; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPECIFIC SITES; SPECTRAL AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL MODELING; SWITZERLAND; VELOCITY PROFILES; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAZARDS; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; S-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT; WAVE VELOCITY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79251612616     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100060     Document Type: Article

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