Spatial- and frequency-dependent properties of site amplification factors in Japan derived by the coda normalization method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1462-1476

  Takemoto, T ^a   Furumura, T ^a   Saito, T ^b   Maeda, T ^a   Noguchi, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODA NORMALIZATION METHOD; DECAY FUNCTION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; INTENSITY PATTERNS; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; KUSHIRO; LOW FREQUENCY BAND; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SITE AMPLIFICATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG MOTION;

GEOLOGY;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84865038351     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110188     Document Type: Article

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