Effects of complicated 3-D rupture geometries on earthquake ground motion and their implications: A numerical study

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 276-292

  Käser, Martin ^a   Gallovič, František ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Fracture sand faults; Numerical solutions; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FRACTURE; GALERKIN METHOD; GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 37449026214     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03627.x     Document Type: Article

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