TY  - JOUR
ID  - epos1310
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120080300
IS  - 5
A1  - Strasser, Fleur O.
A1  - Bommer, Julian J.
N2  - Over the history of instrumental strong-motion recording, the largest amplitudes of ground motions recorded to date have had a significant impact on the perception of the largest amplitudes of ground motion considered physically realizable. However, the length of the instrumental recording history is comparatively short, and instrumental recording networks are relatively sparse, which raises the issue of whether the full range of ground motions has been captured in the current global holdings of strong-motion data. Because the answer to this question is quite obviously negative, a more difficult question then arises: How much greater than the largest currently available observation could future ground motions be? The present article explores this issue, drawing on empirical observations, results from numerical simulations,
and a statistical exercise involving the sampling of spatially correlated stochastic ground-motion fields.
VL  - 99
TI  - Review: Strong Ground Motions--Have We Seen the Worst?
AV  - none
EP  - 2637
Y1  - 2009/10//
PB  - Seismological Society of America
JF  - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
KW  - Ground motion
SN  - 0037-1106
SP  - 2613
ER  -