A κ model for mainland France

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1303-1315

  Douglas, John ^a,b   Gehl, Pierre ^a   Bonilla, Luis Fabian ^c   Ǵlis, Céline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

France; High frequency decay; Kappa; Near surface attenuation; RAP; Strong motion data

Indexed keywords

FRANCE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; KAPPA; NEAR-SURFACE; RAP; STRONG-MOTION DATA;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ROCKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; STRONG MOTION; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVE SPECTRUM;

FRANCE;

EID: 84860388842     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0146-5     Document Type: Article

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