Soil liquefaction effects in the central business district during the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 893-904

  Cubrinovski, Misko ^a   Bray, Jonathan D ^b   Taylor, Merrick ^a   Giorgini, Simona ^a   Bradley, Brendon ^a   Wotherspoon, Liam ^c   Zupan, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; LIQUEFACTION;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CHRISTCHURCH [CANTERBURY]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 80755125730     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.893     Document Type: Article

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