Near real- time simulations of global CMT earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 381-389

  Tromp, Jeroen ^a   Komatitsch, Dimitri ^b,c   Hjörleifsdóttir, Vala ^d,h   Liu, Qinya ^e   Zhu, Hejun ^a   Peter, Daniel ^a   Bozdag, Ebru ^a   McRitchie, Dennis ^a   Friberg, Paul ^f   Trabant, Chad ^g   Hutko, Alex ^g  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Instrumental Software Technologies Inc   (United States)

^g IRIS DMC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FIRST-ORDER; INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION; MATRIX; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; MODE SIMULATION; PRELIMINARY REFERENCE EARTH MODELS; PROCESSOR CACHE; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SEISMOGRAPH NETWORKS; SEISMOLOGY DATA; SPECTRAL-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

EARTHQUAKES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECTONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GROUND MOTION; MOHO; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; SOFTWARE; TECTONICS;

EID: 78349288940     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04734.x     Document Type: Article

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