Numerical modeling of the 13 December 1990 M 5.8 East Sicily earthquake at the Catania accelerometric station

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 241-251

  Laurenzano, Giovanna ^a,b   Priolo, Enrico ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DATASETS; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS (HVSR); SEISMOGRAMS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD (SEM); WAVENUMBER INTEGRATION METHOD (WIM);

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMOMETRY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

CATANIA [CATANIA (PRV)]; CATANIA [SICILY]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18144382990     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030126     Document Type: Article

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