An NGA-West2 empirical model for estimating the horizontal spectral values generated by shallow crustal earthquakes

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1155-1177

  Idrissa, I M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MODEL PARAMETERS; REVISED MODELING; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 84907551011     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: 19448201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/070613EQS195M     Document Type: Article

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