Ground motion and macroseismic intensities of a seismic event related to geothermal reservoir stimulation below the city of Basel - observations and modelling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1757-1771

  Ripperger, Johannes ^a   Kästli, Philipp ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FLUID INJECTION; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SITE EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70349643277     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04374.x     Document Type: Article

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