Ground-motion modeling of hayward fault scenario earthquakes, part i: Construction of the suite of scenarios

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2927-2944

  Aagaard, Brad T ^a   Graves, Robert W ^b   Schwartz, David P ^a   Ponce, David A ^a   Graymer, Russell W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC SLIPS; CREEP RATES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FAULT SCENARIOS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; RUPTURE LENGTH; RUPTURE MODELS; RUPTURE SPEED; SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; HAYWARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957747458     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090324     Document Type: Article

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