A comparison of recorded response spectra from the 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake with modern ground-motion prediction models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2357-2380

  Lu, Ming ^a   Li, Xiao Jun ^a   An, Xiao Wen ^a   Zhao, John X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MODEL; CAMPBELL; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FAULT PLANES; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION MODELS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; RECORDING STATIONS; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG-MOTION; TIME WINDOWS; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT PLANE; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78149478834     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090303     Document Type: Article

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