The main objective of this study is estimating acceleration time history of 16 September 1978 Tabas earthquake incorporating the seismological/geological source-path and site model parameters by using finite-fault simulation approach. The method generalizes the stochastic ground-motion simulation technique, developed for point sources, to the case of finite faults. It subdivides the fault plane...

Simulating wave propagation in 3D configurations is becoming a very active area of research. Themain advantage of the BEM is that only the domain boundaries are discretized. As a result, thismethod is well suited to dealing with unbounded domains. However, the standard BEM leadsto fully-populated matrices, which results in high computational costs in CPU time and mem-ory require...

This review is primarily concerned with the rupture process of large subduction-zone earthquakes determined by various seismological methods, and with its interpretation in terms of an asperity model. It is not possible to make a thorough and extensive review on the subject because of the limited length. Consequently, this review is inevitably biased toward the works in which I was directly inv...