Seismic input at the archaeological site of Kancheepuram in Southern India

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 845-866

  Corigliano, Mirko ^a   Lai, Carlo G ^b,c   Menon, Arun ^d   Ornthammarath, Teraphan ^e  

^a University of Pavia ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EUCENTRE   (Italy)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^e Regional Integrated Multi Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES)   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Archaeological site; Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment; Southern India; Spectrum compatible natural accelerograms; Zone free approach

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PEAK ACCELERATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SITE INVESTIGATION;

INDIA; KANCHIPURAM; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84864413170     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0195-4     Document Type: Article

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