Seismic microzonation of Mashhad city, northeast Iran

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 424-434

  Akbari, Majid ^a   Ghafoori, Mohammad ^a   Moghaddas, Naser Hafezi ^b   Lashkaripour, Gholam Reza ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SOFT SOIL; SOIL TEXTURE;

IRAN; MASHHAD; RAZAVI KHORASAN;

EID: 80052975847     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4771     Document Type: Article

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