CyberShake: A Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 367-381

  Graves, Robert ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^b   Callaghan, Scott ^b   Deelman, Ewa ^c   Field, Edward ^d   Juve, Gideon ^b   Kesselman, Carl ^c   Maechling, Philip ^b   Mehta, Gaurang ^b   Milner, Kevin ^b   Okaya, David ^b   Small, Patrick ^b   Vahi, Karan ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D basin response; Physics based earthquake simulation; rupture directivity; seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

3D BASIN RESPONSE; BASIN RESPONSE EFFECTS; CALIFORNIA; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; ERGODICS; GREEN TENSORS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; GROUND-MOTION VARIABILITY; GROUND-SHAKING; HAZARD MAP; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; LOS ANGELES; MODELING ENVIRONMENTS; PEAK INTENSITY; PHYSICS-BASED; PROPAGATION EFFECT; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SITE OF INTERESTS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; VELOCITY MODEL; WAVE FORMS;

EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; SHAKING TABLE TEST; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952696503     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0161-6     Document Type: Article

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