Mechanisms for Generation of Near-Fault Ground Motion Pulses for Dip-Slip Faulting

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 174, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 3521-3536

  Poiata, Natalia ^a   Miyake, Hiroe ^b   Koketsu, Kazuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2009 L Aquila earthquake; dip slip faulting; directivity effect; focusing effect; Ground motion pulses; worst case rupture scenario

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

CANDIDATE MECHANISMS; DIRECTIVITY EFFECT; FOCUSING EFFECT; GROUND MOTIONS; NEAR FAULT GROUND MOTION; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; WORST-CASE RUPTURE SCENARIO;

FAULT SLIPS;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMOLOGY;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 85029927207     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-017-1540-z     Document Type: Article

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