Alessandro Vuan

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Is bilateral rupture unlikely on a strike slip fault ?

I would like to have some references about possible documented cases of earthquakes M>6.5 that showed bilateral rupture on a strike-slip fault. Could bilateral rupture be eventually excluded in...

14 December 2015 4,911 4 View

Is there a review about hybridization approaches in ground motion modelling, explaining why the crossover band is set between 0.5 and 2.0 Hz ?

3D-1D broadband simulations of ground motion are normally performed by using a hybrid approach where full wave numerical methods are used for the low frequencies and a stochastic contribution has...

25 November 2014 1,936 2 View

Is there any physical limit or upper bound to the seismic moment magnitude scale ?

A young student asked to me if it will be possible a M=12 earthquake in terms of moment magnitude. I told him that the only limit should be not to have a method to estimate well earthquake...

20 October 2014 8,908 17 View

Is L'Aquila 2009 foreshock sequence a non-critical precursory accelerating process or are foreshocks explained better by epidemic type triggering?

The question concerns seismicity, its spatiotemporal distribution and different models of viewing foreshocks ...

05 May 2014 5,931 33 View