REPLY TO DR. KAZUO DAN ON ESTIMATION METHOD OF STRONG GROUND MOTION BY FAULT MODEL (Journal of Struct. Constr. Engng., AIJ, No.411, 1990)

Abstract

The ground motion due to earthquake occurrence in strongly affected by the earthquake process itself, the propagating path of seismic waves, the topography of the ground surface and the properties of ground surface layers. In order to have more reasonable seismic loading, it is necessary to examine how each factor mentioned above contributes to the actual motion. In this study we propose an improved method forsynthetic ground motion, by taking the actual focal process into consideration.