Effect of fault rupture characteristics on near-fault strong ground motions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-58

  Mavroeidis, George P ^a   Papageorgiou, Apostolos S ^b  

^a Catholic University of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK-LIKE; DIP-SLIP FAULTS; DISLOCATION MODELS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FAULT PLANES; FAULT REGION; FAULT RUPTURES; FAULT-SLIP MODEL; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; HIGH STRESS; ISOCHRONES; KINEMATIC MODELING; NEAR FAULT GROUND MOTION; NEAR-FAULT; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PULSE FORMATION; REPRESENTATION METHOD; RISETIMES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC EVENT; SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATE OF STRESS; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME INTERVAL; TIME WINDOWS; WAVE NUMBERS;

DAMPING; LANDFORMS; MODELS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; GROUND MOTION; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRONG MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 75649144762     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090018     Document Type: Article

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