Forearc versus backarc attenuation of earthquake ground motion

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3032-3045

  Ghofrani, Hadi ^a   Atkinson, Gail M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION EFFECT; BACK-ARC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; FOREARC; FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; HAZARD ANALYSIS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; Q-VALUES; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VOLCANIC ARC; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

FORECASTING; HAZARDS; IGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; BACKARC BASIN; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FOREARC BASIN; GROUND MOTION; ISLAND ARC; Q FACTOR; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

JAPAN;

EID: 83255176389     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110067     Document Type: Article

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