Moderate earthquake ground-motion validation in the San Francisco Bay area

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 819-825

  Kim, Ahyi ^a   Dreger, Douglas S ^b   Larsen, Shawn ^c  

^a SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; 3D STRUCTURE; 3D-VELOCITY; BERKELEY DIGITAL SEISMIC NETWORKS; BERKELEY SEISMOLOGICAL LABORATORIES; CALIFORNIA; FIRST ARRIVAL; FOUR-ORDER; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MOMENT TENSORS; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION; STRONG MOTION DATUM; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AMPLITUDE; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SIMULATION; STRONG MOTION;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950346798     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090076     Document Type: Article

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