Repeatable source, site, and path effects on the standard deviation for empirical ground-motion prediction models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2281-2295

  Lin, Po Shen ^a   Chiou, Brian ^b   Abrahamson, Norman ^c   Walling, Melanie ^d   Lee, Chyi Tyi ^e   Cheng, Chin Tung ^a  

^a SINOTECH ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY VARIABILITY; ERGODICS; ERROR COMPONENTS; ESTIMATED VARIANCE; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION MODELS; HAZARD ANALYSIS; MODELING ERRORS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PROPAGATION PATHS; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SINGLE PATH; SINGLE SITES; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOURCE LOCATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOTAL STANDARD DEVIATION; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REDUCTION;

STATISTICS;

AMPLITUDE; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC SOURCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79957926358     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090312     Document Type: Article

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