Characterization of earthquake-induced ground motion from the L'Aquila seismic sequence of 2009, Italy

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 325-337

  Malagnini, Luca ^a   Akinci, Aybige ^a   Mayeda, Kevin ^b,c   Munafo', Irene ^a   Herrmann, Robert B ^d   Mercuri, Alessia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Coda waves; Earthquake ground motions; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; BODY WAVES; CALIBRATION DATA; CODA WAVES; COMPUTATION OF MOMENTS; CRUSTAL ATTENUATION; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EPICENTRAL AREA; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-GAIN; MAIN SHOCK; MOMENT TENSORS; MOTION DATA; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; S/N RATIO; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SITE EFFECTS; SOURCE SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; SPECTRAL CORRECTION; STRONG-MOTION DATA; TIME HISTORY; VALIDATION TEST; WAVE FORMS; WEB PAGE;

STATISTICAL TESTS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEBSITES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CALIBRATION; CODA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAM; SITE EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 78650162012     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04837.x     Document Type: Article

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