On Scaling of Fracture Energy and Stress Drop in Dynamic Rupture Models: Consequences for Near-Source Ground-Motions

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 283-293

  Mai, P Martin ^a   Somerville, P ^b   Pitarka, A ^b   Dalguer, L ^c   Song, S ^d   Beroza, G ^d   Miyake, H ^e   Irikura, K ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation; Faults (Geology); Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FAULTING; FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

DYNAMIC RUPTURE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENGINEERING INTERESTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NEAR SOURCE GROUND MOTION; SCALING PROPERTIES; SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84951166899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM28     Document Type: Chapter

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