A methodology to improve ground-motion prediction equations by including path corrections

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1822-1846

  Anderson, John G ^a   Uchiyama, Yasuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TAISEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FORECASTING; SITE SELECTION; STATISTICS; VELOCITY;

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PEAK ACCELERATION; PILOT APPLICATIONS; PLANNING AND DESIGN; SPATIAL AVERAGE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BROADBAND DATA; CONTOUR MAP; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ERROR CORRECTION; GROUND MOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATH ANALYSIS; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMICITY; SMOOTHING; STRONG MOTION;

GUERRERO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 79961133548     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090359     Document Type: Article

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