Testing the applicability of correlations between topographic slope and VS30 for Europe

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2585-2599

  Lemoine, Anne ^a   Douglas, Johnj ^a   Cotton, Fabrice ^b  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PARTS; ACTIVE REGIONS; BATHYMETRIC DATA; CARBONATE ROCK; CLASS B; COASTAL LOCATIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; FIRST-ORDER; GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; LIMITED DATA; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROZONATION; MIDDLE EAST; PREDICTIVE POWER; SATELLITE IMAGING; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SITE CLASSIFICATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; TEST CASE; THESSALONIKI , GREECE; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE; WHETHER DIFFERENCES;

REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GEOLOGY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; S-WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; MIDDLE EAST; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 84870739754     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110240     Document Type: Article

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