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Source Scaling, Subevent Distributions, And Ground-Motion Simulation In The Composite Source Model, Baoping Shi, Zhenming Wang, Edward W. Woolery

Report of Investigations--KGS

Predicting strong ground motion from a large earthquake depends to a large extent on the development of a realistic source model. Strong ground motion was simulated using the composite source model. F0or comparison purposes, two different approaches were implemented in the source procedure simulation. For the first approach, the source was taken as a superposition of circular subevents with a constant stress drop. The number of subevents and their radii followed fractal law distribution, specified as a spatial random field, and subevents were allowed to overlap. This resulted in the total area of the subevents being much greater than the …