Strong ground-motion simulation of the 12 may 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, using various slip models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2396-2424

  Bjerrum, Louise W ^a   Sørensen, Mathilde B ^b   Atakan, Kuvvet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND FREQUENCY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION; DETERMINISTIC SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO; FAULT PLANES; FAULT RUPTURES; FAULT-SLIP MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; GROUND-SHAKING; HIGH FREQUENCY; INPUT MODELS; INVERSION SCHEME; LOW FREQUENCY; SICHUAN BASIN; SICHUAN PROVINCE; SIMULATION METHODOLOGY; SLIP MODEL; TELESEISMIC; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WAVEFORM INVERSION; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ASPERITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SITE EFFECT; STOCHASTICITY; STRONG MOTION;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78149486019     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090239     Document Type: Article

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