Studies that estimate low-frequency Q-value are very scarce. In most of them estimations are made by eye or by trial and error, without any systematic inversion approach. [...]

Average envelopes of small earthquakes represent a convenient basis for the construction of semi-empirical stochastic Green’s functions, used for prediction of future s [...]

We examined the effects of the random parameters in the stochastic Green’s function method on the predicted strong ground motions in this paper. Assuming lateral strike [...]

In Japan, asperity models, consisting of asperities of high stress drop and backgrounds of no stress drop, are often adopted as kinematic source models for predicting str [...]

We propose a new technique for evaluating empirical site effects in time domain, extending the concept of Birgören and Irikura (2005). They developed a method for estima [...]