Estimation of strong ground motions for 2001 bhuj (m w 7.6), india earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1317-1330

  Chopra, Sumer ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^b   RastogiBal, Bal Krishna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bhuj earthquake; Dynamic corner frequency; Modified mercalli intensity; Response spectrum; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

BHUJ EARTHQUAKE; DYNAMIC CORNER FREQUENCY; MODIFIED MERCALLI INTENSITIES; RESPONSE SPECTRUM; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

ACCELERATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; DISASTER PREVENTION; PLANNING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELEROMETER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE 2001; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; STRONG MOTION;

BHUJ; GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 84860418452     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0132-y     Document Type: Article

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