Magnitude-scaling rate in ground-motion prediction equations for response spectra from large, shallow crustal earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2643-2661

  Zhao, John X ^a,b   Lu, Ming ^c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MODEL; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; DATA SETS; FAULT LENGTH; FAULT RUPTURES; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; LOWER LIMITS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; RATE OF INCREASE; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SHORT DISTANCES; SHORT PERIODS; STRESS DROP; STRONG-MOTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; PARAMETERIZATION; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 83255191733     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100350     Document Type: Article

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