Sensitivity of broad-band ground-motion simulations to earthquake source and Earth structure variations: An application to the Messina Straits (Italy)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1103-1116

  Imperatori, W ^a   Mai, P M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motion; Seismology

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BROAD BANDS; EARTH STRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANES; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; GROUND-MOTION VARIABILITY; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RUPTURE SPEED; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE COMPLEXITY; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SOUTHERN ITALY; STATIC STRESS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; VELOCITY MODEL; VON KARMAN;

EARTHQUAKES; MODEL STRUCTURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FAULT SLIPS;

BROADBAND DATA; EARTH STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; GROUND MOTION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP;

ITALY; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

EID: 84857064312     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05296.x     Document Type: Article

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