Local site effects in Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey, due to a future large earthquake in the Marmara Sea

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1413-1424

  Sørensen, Mathilde B ^a,f   Oprsal, Ivo ^b,g   Bonnefoy Claudet, Sylvette ^c,h   Atakan, Kuvvet ^a   Mai, P Martin ^b   Pulido, Nelson ^d   Yalciner, Caglar ^e,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^e ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Fault model; Finite difference methods; Hybrid method; Istanbul; Strong ground motion

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND MOTION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 33845284231     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03204.x     Document Type: Article

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