Report GIRS 2022-09: A Seismologically Consistent Surface Rupture Length Model for Unbounded and Width-Limited Events

By: Grigorios Lavrentiadis, Yongfei Wang, Norman A. Abrahamson, Yousef Bozorgnia, and Christine Goulet
DOI: 10.34948/N3SG67

(REVISED 11/20/2024)

Abstract
A new surface-rupture-length (SRL) relationship as a function of magnitude (M), fault thickness, and fault dip angle is presented in this paper. The objective of this study is to model the change in scaling between unbounded and width-limited ruptures.