Near-source seismic demand and pulse-like records A discussion for L'Aquila earthquake.

Rupture directivity effects in ground motion are known since many years to both seismologists and earthquake engineers, i.e. in sites that are in a particular geometrical configuration with respect to the rupture, the velocity fault-normal signals may show a large pulse which occurs at the beginning...

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Published in:Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 39, 9 (2010).
Main Author: Chioccarelli, Eugenio
Format: Article
Language:English
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