Implications of the Mw9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake for ground motion scaling with source, path, and site parameters

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Stewart, Jonathan P ^a   Midorikawa, Saburoh ^b   Graves, Robert W ^c   Khodaverdi, Khatareh ^a   Kishida, Tadahiro ^d   Miura, Hiroyuki ^b   Bozorgnia, Yousef ^d   Campbell, Kenneth W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e EQECAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

GROUND MOTION RECORDING; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION SCALING; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877947455     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.4000115     Document Type: Review

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