NGA-West2 research project

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 973-987

  Bozorgnia, Yousef ^a   Abrahamson, Norman A ^b   Al Atik, Linda ^c   Ancheta, Timothy D ^d   Atkinson, Gail M ^e   Baker, Jack W ^f   Baltay, Annemarie ^g   Boore, David M ^g   Campbell, Kenneth W ^h   Chiou, Brian S J ⁱ   Darragh, Robert ^j   Day, Steve ^k   Donahue, Jennifer ^l   Graves, Robert W ^g   Gregor, Nick ^m   Hanks, Thomas ^g   Idriss, I M ⁿ   Kamai, Ronnie ^a   Kishida, Tadahiro ^a   Kottke, Albert ^m   Mahin, Stephen A ^a   Rezaeian, Sanaz ^g   Rowshandel, Badie ^o   Seyhan, Emel ^p   Shahi, Shrey ^f   Shantz, Tom ⁱ   Silva, Walter ^j   Spudich, Paul ^g   Stewart, Jonathan P ^p   Watson Lamprey, Jennie ^q   Wooddell, Kathryn ^b   Youngs, Robert ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^c Linda Alatik Consulting   (United States)

^d Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h Core Logic EQECAT ^*  (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^j Pacific Engineering and Analysis   (United States)

^k SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^m BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o The California Earthquake Authority   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q Watson Lamprey Consulting   (United States)

^r AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAZARDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL GROUND MOTION; PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTERS; SITE AMPLIFICATION; VERTICAL GROUND MOTION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL; RESEARCH; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 84903752485     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: 19448201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/072113EQS209M     Document Type: Article

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