Fault extent estimation for near-real-time ground-shaking map computation purposes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 661-679

  Convertito, Vincenzo ^a   Caccavale, Mauro ^b   de Matteis, Raffaella ^c   Emolo, Antonio ^b   Wald, David ^d   Zollo, Aldo ^b  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CALCULATION CODE; CALIFORNIA; DISTANCE METRICS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; FIRST ORDER; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-SHAKING; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL SPACES; NEAR-REAL TIME; NORTHRIDGE; NUMERICAL TESTS; OFFLINE; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC RISK; SEISMOTECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ESTIMATION; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REAL TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SITE EFFECT;

ABRUZZI; CALIFORNIA; ITALY; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; L'AQUILA; NORTHRIDGE; TURKEY; UNITED STATES;

AQUILA;

EID: 84859144038     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100306     Document Type: Article

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