Ground-motion simulation for the 2017 Mw7.3 Ezgeleh earthquake in Iran by using the Empirical Green's Function Method

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Maryam Pourabdollahi ¹ , Arezou Dorostian ² , Habib Rahimi ³ , Attieh Eshaghi ⁴

1 - Department of Geology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Geology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
4 - Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center, BHRC, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-12-09 Accepted : 2020-10-22 Published : 2021-04-01

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