Strong-ground-motion simulation of the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1429-1445

  Ugurhan, Beliz ^a   Askan, Aysegul ^b   Akinci, Aybige ^c   Malagnini, Luca ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MODEL; CENTRAL ITALY; COMPLEX NATURE; DAMAGE POTENTIAL; DIRECTIVITY EFFECT; DYNAMIC CORNER FREQUENCY; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FAST TOOL; FOURIER AMPLITUDES; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTENSITY PARAMETERS; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MAINSHOCK; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SITE SURVEYS; SOURCE COMPLEXITY; SOURCE MODELS; STRONG-MOTION; SYNTHETIC GROUND MOTIONS; WAVE ATTENUATION;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SIMULATION; STRONG MOTION; WAVE ATTENUATION;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84865050931     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110060     Document Type: Article

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