Predictions of high-frequency ground-motion in Taiwan based on weak motion data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 611-628

  D'Amico, Sebastiano ^a   Akinci, Aybige ^b   Malagnini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asia; Earthquake ground motion; Seismic attenuation

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BROAD BANDS; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; COMPUTER CODES; CRUSTAL ATTENUATION; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DISTANCE RANGES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION MODELS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; MODEL SIMULATION; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOTION DATA; NEAR-SURFACE; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; QUALITY FACTORS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC STATION; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; STRESS DROP; STRESS PARAMETER; STRONG-MOTION DATA; UPPER LIMITS; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE FORMS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FORECASTING;

AFTERSHOCK; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; POINT SOURCE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC WAVE; STOCHASTICITY; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84858613791     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05367.x     Document Type: Article

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