Hybrid broadband ground-motion simulation using scattering green's functions: Application to large-magnitude events

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 A, 2010, Pages 2143-2162

  Mena, Banu ^a   Martin Mai, P ^a   Olsen, Kim B ^b   Purvance, Matthew D ^c   Brune, James N ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D-VELOCITY; BROAD-BAND METHODS; BROADBAND WAVEFORM; DYNAMIC RUPTURE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO; FAULT EFFECT; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; LOCAL SCATTERING; LOW FREQUENCY; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; RATE FUNCTIONS; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SCATTERED WAVE FIELD; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME FUNCTION; WAVE FORMS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SCATTERING; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957725207     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080318     Document Type: Article

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