Site-Specific Modeling of SH and P-SV Waves for Microzonation Study of Kolkata Metropolitan City, India

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 479-493

  Vaccari, Franco ^a,b   Walling, Yanger ^c   Mohanty, William K ^c   Nath, Sankar K ^c   Verma, Akhilesh K ^c   Sengupta, A ^c   Panza, Giuliano F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Bengal basin; Eocene hinge zone; Kolkata megacity; response spectra (RS); response spectra ratio (RSR); seismic microzonation; synthetic seismogram and AMAX

Indexed keywords

BENGAL BASIN; EOCENE HINGE ZONE; MEGACITIES; RESPONSE SPECTRA (RS); RESPONSE SPECTRA RATIO (RSR); SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM AND AMAX;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLIFICATION;

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; MEGACITY; P-WAVE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOGRAM; SH-WAVE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BENGAL; CALCUTTA; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 79952696895     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0141-x     Document Type: Article

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