Site response studies and seismic microzoning in the Middle Aterno valley (L'aquila, Central Italy)

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1417-1442

  Lanzo, G ^a   Silvestri, F ^b   Costanzo, A ^c   d'Onofrio, A ^b   Martelli, L ^d   Pagliaroli, A ^e   Sica, S ^f   Simonelli, A ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d Servizio Geologico   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aterno River valley; Dynamic properties; Microzonation maps; Numerical analyses; Soil amplification

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROGRAMS; AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; AMPLIFICATION FUNCTIONS; CENTRAL ITALY; CIVIL PROTECTION; DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GEOLOGICAL SECTION; GEOTECHNICAL; HORIZONTAL PROFILE; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; INPUT MOTIONS; INTENSITY VALUES; LINEAR RANGE; MAINSHOCK; MICROZONATION; MICROZONATION MAPS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; RESPONSE SPECTRA; RIVER VALLEY; SEISMIC CODE; SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SEISMIC MICROZONING; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SITE RESPONSE; SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SOIL AMPLIFICATION; WORKING GROUPS;

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOILS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; AMPLIFICATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 80052446524     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9278-y     Document Type: Article

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