Relationships between moment magnitude and fault parameters:theoretical and semi-empirical relationships

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摘要 Faultparametersareimportantinearthquakehazardanalysis.Inthispaper,theoreticalrelationshipsbetweenmomentmagnitudeandfaultparametersincludingsubsurfacerupturelength,downdiprupturewidth,rupturearea,andaverageslipoverthefaultsurfacearededucedbasedonseismologicaltheory.Thesetheoreticalrelationshipsarefurthersimplifiedbyapplyingsimilarityconditionsandanuniqueformisestablished.Then,combiningthcsimplifiedtheoreticalrelationshipsbetweenmomentmagnitudeandfaultparameterswithseismicsourcedataselectedinthisstudy,apracticalsemi-empiricalrelationshipisestablished.Theseismicsourcedataselectedisalsotousedtoderiveempiricalrelationshipsbetweenmomentmagnitudeandfaultparametersbytheordinaryleastsquareregressionmethod.Comparisonsbetweensemi-empiricalrelationshipsandempiricalrelationshipsshowthattheformerdepictdistributiontrendsofdatabetterthanthelatter.Itisalsoobservedthatdowndiprupturewidthsofstrikeslipfaultsaresaturatedwhenmomentmagnitudeismorethan7.0,butdowndiprupturewidthsofdipslipfaultsarenotsaturatedinthemomentmagnituderangesofthisstudy.
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出版日期 2003年02月12日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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