A revised ground-motion and intensity interpolation scheme for shakemap

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3083-3096

  Worden, C B ^a   Wald, D J ^b   Allen, T I ^c   Lin, K ^b   Garcia, D ^b   Cua, G ^d  

^a Synergetics Inc   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Geoscience Australia Canberra ^*  (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TYPE; DIRECT OBSERVATION; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT GEOMETRY; GRID POINTS; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; INTENSITY MAPPING; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; INTERPOLATION PROCESS; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LOSS CALCULATION; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; NEAR-REAL TIME; NUMERICAL MODELS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE;

EID: 78650104526     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100101     Document Type: Article

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