A two-stage method for ground-motion simulation using stochastic summation of small earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1387-1400

  Kohrs Sansorny, Carine ^a,b   Courboulex, Françoise ^a   Bour, Myriam ^b   Deschamps, Anne ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; SEISMIC MOMENT; STOCHASTIC SUMMATION; TWO-STAGE METHOD;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; MODELING;

EID: 24944535003     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040211     Document Type: Article

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