First level seismic microzonation map of Chennai city - A GIS approach

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 549-559

  Ganapathy, G P ^a  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; REMOTE SENSING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

CHENNAI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 79951912911     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-549-2011     Document Type: Article

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