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...
Published in: | Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 39, 9 (2010). |
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