Identifying the unique ground motion signatures of supershear earthquakes: Theory and experiments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 297-326

  Mello, M ^a   Bhat, H S ^a,b   Rosakis, A J ^a   Kanamori, H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic shear rupture; Ground motion; Laboratory earthquakes; Supershear

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPRESSIONAL; DENALI FAULT EARTHQUAKE; DISCRETE LOCATION; GROUND MOTIONS; HETERODYNE LASER INTERFEROMETERS; HIGH-BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENT; HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEQUENCE; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; MAXIMUM SHEAR STRESS; NEAR FIELD GROUND MOTION; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; PUMP STATION; RAYLEIGH; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SUPERSHEAR; SUPERSHEAR EARTHQUAKES; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; TEST SPECIMENS;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; LABORATORIES; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; PUMPS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY CONTROL;

SHEAR FLOW;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 78049258219     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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