This paper compares the characteristics of earthquake ground-motion records obtained in near-fault regions ofGreece with well known international near-fault records and simple wavelets.

<p>A simple and powerful method for simulating ground motions is to combine parametric or functional descriptions of the ground motion&rsquo;s amplitude spectrum with a random phase spectrum modified such that the motion is distributed over a duration related ...

The analysis in this paper concludes that permanent displacements of the ground andof structures in the near-field can be calculated provided all six components of strong motion(three translations and three rotations) have been recorded, and the records are ...

<p>GPS technology with high sampling rates allows scientifically justified and economically feasible dynamic measurements of relative displacements. In this paper is described an experiment whereby the displacement responses of a simulated tall building are ...

This paper addresses the issue of predicting parameters and strong motion characteristics, discussing the definition of peak acceleration parameters and duration and the consequences of the variations, often not specified that exist amongst the definitions ...