Along-strike rupture directivity of earthquakes of the 2009 L'Aquila, central Italy, seismic sequence

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 399-415

  Calderoni, G ^a   Rovelli, A ^a   Ben Zion, Y ^b   Di Giovambattista, R ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faultingcover date; Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake ground motions; Earthquake source observations; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SPECTRAL SEPARATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84942154712     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv275     Document Type: Article

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