Rupture Analysis of the Northridge Earthquake from Modeling Strong Motion Recordings

Abstract

One of the exciting things we can do in modern seismology is to model the details of the slip on the causative fault during an earthquake. An earthquake is a rupture process that expands from an initial rupture at some point on the fault plane. The rupture does not occur instantaneously nor does it proceed uniformly along the fault plane. This article describes a method used to uncover the spatial and temporal details of the rupture process--the determination of the slip model.

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