Shear-wave velocity profiling of strong motion sites that recorded the 2001 nisqually, Washington, earthquake

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-212

  Wong, Ivan G ^a   Stokoe II, Kenneth H ^b   Cox, Brady R ^c   Lin, Yin Cheng ^b   Menq, Farn Yuh ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GLACIAL TILL; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; PUGET SOUND; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES; STRONG MOTION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79953148366     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3534936     Document Type: Article

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