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Duration of earthquake fault motion in California
Author(s) -
Trifunac M. D.,
Novikova E. I.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.218
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9845
pISSN - 0098-8847
DOI - 10.1002/eqe.4290240602
Subject(s) - seismology , amplitude , fault (geology) , acceleration , geology , magnitude (astronomy) , duration (music) , range (aeronautics) , peak ground acceleration , exponential function , pulse duration , strong ground motion , physics , ground motion , mathematics , acoustics , engineering , optics , mathematical analysis , laser , classical mechanics , astronomy , aerospace engineering
Duration of high frequency (5–25 Hz) radiation of energy from earthquake sources in California is consistent with the estimates of fault length and with dislocation velocity estimates of 2–3 km/sec. This duration can be described by an exponential function of magnitude for 2·5 < M < 7·5. It is related to the times it takes the dislocation to spread over the fault width (1/ f 2 ), and the fault length (∼ 1/ f 1 ), and to reach its ultimate amplitude ( T 0 ). The results in this paper can be used to estimate the range of amplitudes and the duration of long period pulses of strong ground motion near faults, as these long period pulses can be related to the properties of high‐frequency radiation from the source. Such pulses must be considered in the analyses of yielding structures, when the average peak acceleration of the pulse exceeds the yield resistance seismic coefficient of the structure.