Simulations of ground motion in the Los Angeles basin based upon the spectral-element method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 187-206

  Komatitsch, Dimitri ^a   Liu, Qinya ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^a   Süss, Peter ^b   Stidham, Christiane ^b   Shaw, John H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GROUND MOTION; PEAK GROUND DISPLACEMENT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN MODEL; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842864355     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030077     Document Type: Article

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