Near-fault strong motion complexity of the 2003 Bam earthquake (Iran) and low-frequency ground motion simulation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 679-686

  Ghayamghamian, M R ^a   Hisada, Y ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity model; Bam earthquake; Ground motion simulation; Near fault directivity; Source parameters

Indexed keywords

BAM EARTHQUAKE 2003; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND MOTION; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; BAM; EURASIA; IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34547145271     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03423.x     Document Type: Article

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