VS30 and spectral response from collocated shallow, active-, and passive-source vS data at 27 sites in Puerto Rico

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2709-2728

  Odum, Jack K ^a   Stephenson, William J ^a   Williams, Robert A ^a   von Hillebrandt Andrade, Christa ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA NWS CTWP   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING DESIGN; MULTI METHODS; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PEAK FREQUENCIES; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC DESIGN;

SURFACE WAVES;

BODY WAVE; DATA ACQUISITION; MICROTREMOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84884961890     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120349     Document Type: Article

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