Identification of accelerometric stations in ITACA with distinctive features in their seismic response

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1921-1939

  Bindi, Dino ^a,b   Luzi, Lucia ^b   Pacor, Francesca ^b   Paolucci, Roberto ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Between station variability; Italy; Site classification; Strong motion

Indexed keywords

BETWEEN-STATION VARIABILITY; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DATA SETS; DEAMPLIFICATION; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; ITALY; RANDOM EFFECTS; SEISMIC IMPEDANCE; SHORT PERIODS; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SITE CLASSIFICATION; SITE COEFFICIENT; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL ORDINATES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG MOTION; VERTICAL COMPONENT; VERTICAL RESPONSE;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; RANDOM ERRORS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

AMPLIFICATION;

DATA SET; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUND MOTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; SURFACE WAVE;

ITALY;

EID: 80855131518     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9271-5     Document Type: Article

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