Near-fault earthquake ground-motion simulation in the Grenoble Valley by a high-performance spectral element code

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 286-301

  Stupazzini, Marco ^a   Paolucci, Roberto ^a   Igel, Heiner ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Movie of simulated wavefield and hypocenter locations

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; LOCATION; MODELS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ACTIVE REGIONS; ALLUVIAL BASINS; ALPINE VALLEYS; COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; DIRECTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FAULT RUPTURES; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GRENOBLE; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTIONS; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIAS; LARGE SIZES; MOVIE OF SIMULATED WAVEFIELD AND HYPOCENTER LOCATIONS; NEAR FAULTS; NEAR-FAULT EARTHQUAKES; NONLINEAR RANGES; NONLINEAR SOIL BEHAVIORS; NONLINEAR VISCO ELASTICS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PEAK GROUND VELOCITIES; PEAK VALUES; RADIATION MECHANISMS; SEISMIC RISKS; SEISMIC SOURCES; SITE EFFECTS; SOIL MODELS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; SPECTRAL ELEMENTS; URBAN AREAS; VELOCITY PULSE; VERTICAL PLANES;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT; SOIL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GRENOBLE; ISERE; RHONE-ALPES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 60649116979     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080274     Document Type: Article

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