Near-surface ground motion along strike-slip faults: Insights into magnitude saturation of PGV and PGA

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2278-2290

  Schmedes, Jan ^a   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FORECASTING; KINEMATICS; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; ATTENUATION RELATIONSHIPS; CRITICAL FACTORS; CRITICAL POINTS; EMPIRICAL DATUM; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; GROUND MOTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS; KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; KINEMATIC SIMULATIONS; LARGE ASPECT RATIOS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATIONS; PEAK GROUND VELOCITIES; RUPTURE MODELS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SIMULATING; SOURCE REGIONS; SURFACE GROUND MOTIONS; WAVE VELOCITIES;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 54949148714     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070209     Document Type: Article

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