Reconnaissance report and preliminary ground motion simulation of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1569-1601

  Bjerrum, Louise Wedderkopp ^a   Atakan, Kuvvet ^a   Sørensen, Mathilde Bøttger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Damage distribution; Field reconnaissance; Ground motion simulation; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND FREQUENCY; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; ECONOMIC LOSS; FAULT PLANES; FAULT RUPTURES; FIELD RECONNAISSANCE; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; GROUND-SHAKING; NEAR-FIELD; SICHUAN; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRONG GROUND MOTION; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WIDE AREA;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FAULT PLANE; FIELD SURVEY; GROUND MOTION; LANDSLIDE; ROCKFALL; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 78649764754     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-010-9198-2     Document Type: Article

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