Attenuation of seismic shear wave energy in Switzerland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 967-984

  Edwards, Benjamin ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earthquake ground motions; Europe; Fourier analysis; Seismic attenuation; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION EFFECT; ATTENUATION MODEL; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EUROPE; FOURIER; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; PATH ATTENUATION; REFLECTION PHASIS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE MODELS; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SWISS ALPS; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; WAVE ENERGY;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; MOHO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79954577244     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04987.x     Document Type: Article

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