Test of a threshold-based earthquake early-warning method using Japanese data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1266-1275

  Colombelli, Simona ^a   Amoroso, Ortensia ^a   Zollo, Aldo ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animated gif files of simulations of the threshold based method

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED GIF FILES OF SIMULATIONS OF THE THRESHOLD-BASED METHOD; DAMAGE ZONES; DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDES; EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS; EARLY-WARNING METHOD; EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; EVENT LOCATION; KEY ELEMENTS; MACROSEISMIC; ONSITE SYSTEMS; P-WAVE ARRIVAL; PEAK DISPLACEMENT; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PERFORMANCE TESTS; REGIONAL NETWORKS; SEISMIC REGIONS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STRONG-MOTION DATA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; REAL TIME; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84862117976     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110149     Document Type: Article

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