A New Zealand-specific pseudospectral acceleration ground-motion prediction equation for active shallow crustal earthquakes based on foreign models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1801-1822

  Bradley, Brendon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKES; ACCELERATION AMPLITUDE; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ANELASTIC ATTENUATION; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EMPIRICAL PREDICTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FORECASTING;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 84878819545     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120021     Document Type: Article

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