Ground-motion amplitudes for earthquakes in Puerto Rico

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1846-1859

  Atkinson, Gail M ^a   Motazedian, Dariush ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; ATTENUATION RATE; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ENGINEERING INTERESTS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; MODEL DISCREPANCIES; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84878828594     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120130     Document Type: Article

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