Ground shaking and seismic source spectra for large earthquakes around the megathrust fault offshore of northeastern Honshu, Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1221-1241

  Ye, Lingling ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORNER FREQUENCY; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; PATH ATTENUATION; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; STRONG GROUND MOTION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC SOURCE; THRUST FAULT;

HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84877256644     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120115     Document Type: Article

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