Low-frequency and broad-band source models for the 2009 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-242

  Poiata, Natalia ^a,c   Koketsu, Kazuki ^a   Vuan, Alessandro ^b   Miyake, Hiroe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake ground motions; Earthquake source observations; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; BODY WAVES; BROAD BANDS; BROADBAND SOURCES; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; EPICENTRE; FAULT PLANES; FAULTING EVENTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GROUND MOTIONS; HYPOCENTRE; INHABITED AREAS; INVERSION ANALYSIS; LOW FREQUENCY; MACROSEISMIC; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; MAINSHOCK; NEAR-FIELD; SCALING RELATIONS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCE MODELS; SOURCE PROCESS; STRESS DROP; STRONG MOTION; STRONG MOTION DATUM; TELESEISMIC; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

DROPS; FAULTING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRONG MOTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84866365038     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05602.x     Document Type: Article

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