Characterized source model for simulating strong ground motions during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2450-2475

  Kurahashi, Susumu ^a   Irikura, Kojiro ^a  

^a AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVITY EFFECT; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; HYBRID METHOD; RUPTURE AREAS; SOURCE FAULT; SOURCE MODELS; SOURCE REGION; STRESS DROP; STRONG GROUND MOTION; STRONG MOTION; STRONG-MOTION DATA; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; WAVE FORMS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES; GREEN'S FUNCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AFTERSHOCK; ASPERITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SITE EFFECT; SLIP RATE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78149471752     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090308     Document Type: Article

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