Paul Somerville

Modification of Empirical Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relations to Include the Amplitude and Duration Effects of Rupture Directivity

Paul Somerville, N. F. Smith, Robert Graves et al. · Seismological Research Letters · 1997 · 1.4K citations

Applied Geophysics, Engineering, Seismic Wave +17

Characterizing Crustal Earthquake Slip Models for the Prediction of Strong Ground Motion

Paul Somerville, Kojiro Irikura, Robert Graves et al. · Seismological Research Letters · 1999 · 1K citations

Engineering, Ca 91101, Earthquake Hazards +18

Magnitude scaling of the near fault rupture directivity pulse

Paul Somerville · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors · 2003 · 498 citations

Geophysics, Fault Geometry, Engineering +6

Ground motion evaluation procedures for performance-based design

Jonathan P. Stewart, Shyh-Jeng Chiou, Jonathan D. Bray et al. · Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering · 2002 · 295 citations

Engineering, Health Sciences, Performance-based Building Design +8

Ground-motion amplification in the Santa Monica area: Effects of shallow basin-edge structure

Robert Graves, Arben Pitarka, Paul Somerville · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1998 · 283 citations

Engineering, Seismic Wave, Geomorphology +24