Numerical study of ground-motion differences between buried-rupturing and surface-rupturing earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1521-1537

  Pitarka, Arben ^a   Dalguer, Luis A ^b   Day, Steven M ^c   Somerville, Paul G ^a   Dan, Kazuo ^d  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHIMIZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY EFFECT; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION MODELS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND VELOCITY; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; NEAR FAULT GROUND MOTION; NEAR-FAULT; NEGATIVE STRESS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHALLOW LAYERS; SHALLOW ZONES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; STRESS DROP;

DROPS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 69549084963     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080193     Document Type: Article

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