experimental

Name	Notation	Description	Types	Status
active fault	1	A fault that has slipped during the present seismotectonic re...	Concept	experimental
availability	2	The amount of data that is available in comparison to the amo...	Concept	experimental
bibliography	3	A list of the books and articles that have been used by someo...	Concept	experimental
catalogue	4	A list of earthquakes. Early catalogs were purely descriptive...	Concept	experimental
crustal fault source	5	A fault entirely located within the Earth's crust, which is d...	Concept	experimental
data quality	6	a measure of the assumed quality of data, usually specific to...	Concept	experimental
earthquake	7	A shaking of the Earth that is either tectonic or volcanic in...	Concept	experimental
earthquake intensity	8	Macroseismic intensity experienced at the epicentre; as such,...	Concept	experimental
fault	9	A fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side hav...	Concept	experimental
fault plane	10	The surface along which there is slip during an earthquake. I...	Concept	experimental
fault rupture model	11	models of the space�time evolution of coseismic displacemen...	Concept	experimental
focal mechanism	12	The focal mechanism of an earthquake describes the deformatio...	Concept	experimental
geohazard	13	Geological or geophysical hazards originate from internal ear...	Concept	experimental
geology	14	Geology is the science that investigates the Earth, the mater...	Concept	experimental
hazard	15	A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss o...	Concept	experimental
hazard map	16	: in the context of a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, ...	Concept	experimental
ground shaking hazard model	17	Ensemble of a seimogenic sources and ground motion models use...	Concept	experimental
intensity	18	A cumulative measure of the effects of an earthquake at a par...	Concept	experimental
macroseismic	19	The study of any effects of earthquakes that are observable w...	Concept	experimental
macroseismic place	20	A particular place affected by some earthquake, where some le...	Concept	experimental
macroseismic scale	21	Macroseismic intensity assessments assign integer numerals to...	Concept	experimental
magnitude	22	In seismology, a quantity intended to measure the size of ear...	Concept	experimental
metadata	23	Metadata is defined as the data providing information about o...	Concept	experimental
moment tensor	25	A symmetric second-order tensor that characterizes an interna...	Concept	experimental
natural hazards	26	Hazards predominantly associated with natural processes and p...	Concept	experimental
plate-boundary fault	27	A geological fault that separates portions of the earth's cru...	Concept	experimental
seismic hazard	28	Any physical phenomena associated with an earthquake (e.g., g...	Concept	experimental
seismic station	29	A facility devoted to the measurement and recording of earthq...	Concept	experimental
body wave	30	Waves that propagate through the interior of a body are calle...	Concept	experimental
surface wave	31	Seismic wave that propagates along the surface of an elastic ...	Concept	experimental
seismic wave	32	A general term for waves generated by earthquakes, explosions...	Concept	experimental
coda wave	33	The seismograms of an earthquake usually show some vibrations...	Concept	experimental
seismic waveform	34	A record written by a seismograph in response to ground motio...	Concept	experimental
seismicity	35	The occurrence or frequency of earthquakes in a region	Concept	experimental
seismogenic fault	36	A geological fault that is capable of generating earthquakes....	Concept	experimental
seismic source	37	A seismic source is a construct developed for seismic hazard ...	Concept	experimental
seismogenic source zone	38	A specific type of seismic source defined by a polygon that i...	Concept	experimental
seismology	39	A branch of geophysics dealing with mechanical vibrations of ...	Concept	experimental
shake map	40	A map of earthquake ground motion showing the geographical di...	Concept	experimental
site classification	41	The process of assigning a site category to a site by means o...	Concept	experimental
slab	42	In a subduction zone, the slab is the dipping portion of the ...	Concept	experimental
slip rate	43	the measurement of how fast the two sides of a fault are slip...	Concept	experimental
studies	45	Results of historical investigation, generally providing a di...	Concept	experimental
subduction	46	In plate tectonics: the process that makes one plate (the sla...	Concept	experimental
subduction fault	47	A fault entirely located within a subduction zone.	Concept	experimental
Peak Ground Acceleration	48	Largest ground acceleration in absolute value recorded or exp...	Concept	experimental
Peak Ground Velocity	49	Largest ground velocity in absolute value recorded or expecte...	Concept	experimental
Peak Ground Displacement	50	Largest ground displacement in absolute value recorded or exp...	Concept	experimental
Origin Time	51	The instant of time when an earthquake begins at the hypocent...	Concept	experimental
Epicenter	52	The point on the Earth's surface vertically above the earthqu...	Concept	experimental
Epicentral Distance	53	Distance between a site and the earthquake epicenter.	Concept	experimental
Hypocenter	54	A point in the Earth (also called earthquake focus) where the...	Concept	experimental
Hypocentral distance	55	Distance between a site and the earthquake hypocenter.	Concept	experimental
Joyner-Boore distance	56	The shortest distance from a site to the surface projection o...	Concept	experimental
Rupture distance	57	The shortest distance from a site to a rupture surface.	Concept	experimental
Response spectrum	58	The response spectrum provides the maximum amplitude response...	Concept	experimental
Exposure model	59	A model of the spatial distribution and characteristics of bu...	Concept	experimental
Vs profile	60	A profile with the distribution of shear wave velocity Vs wit...	Concept	experimental
P wave	61	A symbol for a seismic body wave that involves particle motio...	Concept	experimental
S wave	62	Elastic waves producing shear and no volume change are called...	Concept	experimental
Vs30	63	Average shear-wave velocity between 0 and 30 meters depth	Concept	experimental
resonance frequency	64	Resonance frequency of site	Concept	experimental
engineering bedrock	65	Depth of the engineering bedrock. Engineering bedrock corresp...	Concept	experimental
seismological bedrock	66	Depth of the seismological bedrock. Seismological bedrock cor...	Concept	experimental
H800	67	Depth beyond which the shear-wave velocity Vs exceeds 800 m/s...	Concept	experimental
EC8 class	68	Ground type according to Eurocode 8.	Concept	experimental
fault strike	69	The azimuthal direction of the horizontal in the fault plane	Concept	experimental
fault dip	70	The inclination of a fault plane relative to the horizontal i...	Concept	experimental
fault rake	71	A parameter describing the slip direction of a fault, measure...	Concept	experimental
accelerogram	72	A record (time history) of ground acceleration as a function ...	Concept	experimental
accelerograph	73	A compact, rugged, and relatively inexpensive seismograph des...	Concept	experimental
accelerometer	74	A sensor or transducer that converts acceleration of its base...	Concept	experimental
aftershock	75	An earthquake occurring as a consequence of a larger earthqua...	Concept	experimental
amplitude	76	The size of the wiggles on an earthquake recording; more gene...	Concept	experimental
Arias intensity	77	A ground-motion parameter derived from an accelerogram and pr...	Concept	experimental
arrival time	78	The time of the first onset of a seismic wave (e.g., P wave) ...	Concept	experimental
band-pass filter	79	A filter which removes low and high frequency portions of the...	Concept	experimental
base-line correction	80	A term used in the processing of time series analysis. It cor...	Concept	experimental
broadband seismogram	81	Seismograms recorded by a broadband seismograph	Concept	experimental
broadband seismograph	82	To avoid the strong ambient noise caused by ocean waves (micr...	Concept	experimental
channel	83	In observational seismology, it is the signal output of a com...	Concept	experimental
component	84	(1) One dimension of a three-dimensional signal, (2) The vert...	Concept	experimental
corner frequency	85	The frequency at which the curve representing the Fourier amp...	Concept	experimental
corrected acceleration	86	An acceleration time history that has been 'corrected' from t...	Concept	experimental
damping	87	The reduction in amplitude of a seismic wave or oscillator du...	Concept	experimental
earthquake engineering	88	The field of earthquake engineering is defined as encompassin...	Concept	experimental
earthquake sequence	89	A series of earthquakes originating in the same (wider) local...	Concept	experimental
foreshock	90	Relatively smaller earthquake that precedes the largest earth...	Concept	experimental
ground motion	91	Vibration of the ground, primarily due to earthquakes or othe...	Concept	experimental
high-pass filter	92	Filter which removes the low frequency portion of the input s...	Concept	experimental
instrument response	93	In order to recover the ground motion at a recording site, on...	Concept	experimental
low-pass filter	94	Filter which removes the high frequency portion of the input ...	Concept	experimental
mainshock	95	The largest earthquake in an earthquake sequence, sometimes p...	Concept	experimental
seismic sensor	96	There are two basic types of seismic sensors: (1) inertial se...	Concept	experimental
seismic sequence	97	A group of events that occur close together in time in the sa...	Concept	experimental
seismic signal	98	A coherent transient waveform radiated from a definite, local...	Concept	experimental
sensitivity	99	The scalar value used to convert the measured output signal (...	Concept	experimental
site effect	100	The effect of local geologic and topographic conditions at a ...	Concept	experimental
site response	101	The modification of earthquake ground motion amplitude, phase...	Concept	experimental
strong ground motion	102	Ground motion of sufficient amplitude and duration to be pote...	Concept	experimental
strong-motion instrument	103	An accelerograph designed to record accurately the strong gro...	Concept	experimental