Kinematic inversion of strong-motion data using a Gaussian parameterization for the slip: Application to the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi, Japan, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2685-2703

  Lucca, E ^a   Festa, G ^b   Emolo, A ^b  

^a Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAUNAY; FAULT PLANES; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIANS; GLOBAL EXPLORATION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; KINEMATIC INVERSION; L2-NORM; LEAST SQUARE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; NEIGHBORHOOD ALGORITHM; NONLINEAR TECHNIQUES; PARAMETERIZED; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STRONG-MOTION; STRONG-MOTION DATA; TWO-STEP PROCEDURE;

EARTHQUAKES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; VELOCITY;

FAULTING;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ASPERITY; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; GROUND MOTION; INVERSE PROBLEM; KINEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRONG MOTION; WAVELENGTH;

JAPAN;

EID: 84870727345     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110292     Document Type: Article

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