On the discrepancy of recent European ground-motion observations and predictions from empirical models: Analysis of KiK-net accelerometric data and point-sources stochastic simulations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2244-2261

  Cotton, F ^a   Pousse, G ^b   Bonilla, F ^b   Scherbaum, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

ALEATORY VARIABILITIES; DATASETS; DECAY RATES; DISTANCE DECAYS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EMPIRICAL MODELS; EUROPEAN; EXTENDED SOURCES; FOURIER; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GROUND MOTIONS; MOTION AMPLITUDES; MOTION DATUM; MOTION MODELS; MOTION OBSERVATIONS; MOTION PREDICTIONS; REGIONAL VARIATIONS; RESPONSE SPECTRAL ACCELERATIONS; SCALING; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMOTECTONIC; SITE CLASSIFICATIONS; SITE CONDITIONS; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDES; SPECTRAL VALUES; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 54949099594     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060084     Document Type: Article

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