Low-frequency 3D wave propagation modeling of the 12 may 2008 mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2561-2573

  Chavez, M ^a   Cabrera, E ^a   Madariaga, R ^b   Chen, H ^c   Perea, N ^a   Emerson, D ^d   Salazar, A ^a   Ashworth, M ^d   Moulinec, C H ^d   Li, X ^e   Wu, M ^c   Zhao, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^d DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; ACTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPRESSION AND SHEAR; D-INSAR; DIFFERENTIAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; EURASIAN PLATES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; ME-XICO; PHYSICAL DOMAIN; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SICHUAN; SOUTHERN CHINA; SUPERCOMPUTING SERVICES; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WAVE PROPAGATION MODELING; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WESTERN SICHUAN;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; KINEMATICS; MODELING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 78149482679     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090240     Document Type: Article

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