Analysis of rock-fall and rock-fall avalanche seismograms in the French Alps

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1781-1796

  Deparis, J ^a   Jongmans, Denis ^a   Cotton, F ^a   Baillet, L ^a   Thouvenot, F ^a   Hantz, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); COMPUTER NETWORKS; SNOW;

FRENCH ALPS; GROUND MOTIONS; ROCK FALLS;

ROCKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POTENTIAL FIELD; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCKFALL; SEISMOGRAM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50549084637     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070082     Document Type: Review

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