Estimation of the breakdown slip from strong-motion seismograms: Insights from numerical experiments

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3454-3469

  Cruz Atienza, Víctor M ^a   Olsen, Kim B ^b   Dalguer, Luís A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; BANDLIMITED; BREAKDOWN PROCESS; COHESIVE ZONES; DYNAMIC LEVELS; DYNAMIC STRESS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT FRICTION; NARROW WIDTH; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PEAK PARTICLE VELOCITIES; RUPTURE MODELS; RUPTURE PROCESS; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMIC ENERGY; SHORT DISTANCES; STRONG-MOTION; STRONG-MOTION DATA; TIME SPAN;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FRICTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; SEISMOGRAM; SIMULATION; STRONG MOTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUYAMA; HIROSHIMA [CHUGOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 70450212121     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080330     Document Type: Article

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