Modeling variable-stress distribution with the stochastic finite-fault technique

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1935-1949

  Assatourians, Karen ^a   Atkinson, Gail M ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS MEASUREMENT;

GROUND MOTION; STOCHASTIC FINITE-FAULT TECHNIQUE; VARIABLE-STRESS DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT PLANE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE 2004; STOCHASTICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 38349132321     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060203     Document Type: Article

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