Uncertainties in strong ground-motion prediction with finite-fault synthetic seismograms: An application to the 1984 M 5.7 Gubbio, central Italy, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 647-663

  Ameri, Gabriele ^a   Galloviv̌, František ^b   Pacor, Francesca ^a   Emolo, Antonio ^c  

^a Istituto Nazional e di Geofisicae Vulcanologia   (Italy)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RESPONSE; BEST MODEL; CENTRAL ITALY; COMPOSITE METHOD; DETERMINISTIC-STOCHASTIC METHODS; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING APPLICABILITY; ERROR FUNCTION; FAULT SIMULATION; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTEGRAL QUANTITY; KINEMATIC MODEL; KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; KINEMATIC SOURCE PARAMETERS; NUCLEATION POINTS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG-MOTION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NUCLEATION; SIMULATORS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

KINEMATICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STOCHASTICITY; STRONG MOTION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GUBBIO; ITALY; PERUGIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA;

ANAS;

EID: 67649980902     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080240     Document Type: Article

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