Arben Pitarka

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Arben Pitarka is a scholar working on Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Arben Pitarka has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Geophysics, 47 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Arben Pitarka's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (50 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (45 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (41 papers). Arben Pitarka is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (50 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (45 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (41 papers). Arben Pitarka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Arben Pitarka's co-authors include Robert Graves, Kojiro Irikura, Paul Somerville, Tomotaka Iwata, Arthur Rodgers, Haruko Sekiguchi, David McCallen, Katsuhiro Kamae, Björn Sjögreen and N. Anders Petersson and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal International and Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Arben Pitarka

69 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Broadband Ground-Motion Simulation Using a Hybrid Approach

2010 448 citations Robert Graves, Arben Pitarka Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Arben Pitarka	2.3k	2.0k	243	194	157	74	2.9k
Luis Fabián Bonilla	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	194 0.8×	244 1.3×	147 0.9×	71	2.4k
Ezio Faccioli	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	100 0.4×	243 1.3×	182 1.2×	84	2.5k
Francisco J. Chávez‐García	2.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	218 0.9×	274 1.4×	478 3.0×	70	3.2k
Sinan Akkar	2.7k 1.1×	4.3k 2.1×	271 1.1×	235 1.2×	97 0.6×	81	4.8k
Brian Chiou	2.4k 1.0×	3.9k 1.9×	176 0.7×	227 1.2×	74 0.5×	26	4.2k
Kojiro Irikura	4.4k 1.9×	3.2k 1.6×	532 2.2×	439 2.3×	154 1.0×	164	5.1k
Roberto Paolucci	1.9k 0.8×	3.4k 1.7×	218 0.9×	389 2.0×	376 2.4×	123	4.1k
Paul Spudich	3.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	453 1.9×	199 1.0×	379 2.4×	60	3.9k
Shin Aoi	2.1k 0.9×	822 0.4×	549 2.3×	139 0.7×	151 1.0×	111	2.4k
Chiara Smerzini	750 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	98 0.4×	121 0.6×	153 1.0×	52	1.3k

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Pitarka, Arben, et al.. (2025). Broadband Near-Fault Ground-Motion Simulations Using a Modified f - k Method in Central Italy. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Petrone, Floriana, et al.. (2024). Ground‐motions site and event specificity: Insights from assessing a suite of simulated ground motions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Earthquake Spectra. 40(4). 2712–2736. 4 indexed citations

Pitarka, Arben, et al.. (2024). Performance evaluation of the USGS velocity model for the San Francisco Bay Area. Earthquake Spectra. 41(1). 457–494. 5 indexed citations

McCallen, David, et al.. (2024). Regional‐scale fault‐to‐structure earthquake simulations with the EQSIM framework: Workflow maturation and computational performance on GPU‐accelerated exascale platforms. Earthquake Spectra. 40(3). 1615–1652. 7 indexed citations

Pitarka, Arben, et al.. (2024). Performance assessment of near‐fault buildings subjected to physics‐based simulated earthquake ground motions with fling step. Earthquake Spectra. 41(1). 381–411. 1 indexed citations

McCallen, David, et al.. (2023). Characteristics and selection of near‐fault simulated earthquake ground motions for nonlinear analysis of buildings. Earthquake Spectra. 39(4). 2281–2322. 7 indexed citations

Pitarka, Arben, Robert Graves, Kojiro Irikura, et al.. (2021). Refinements to the Graves–Pitarka Kinematic Rupture Generator, Including a Dynamically Consistent Slip-Rate Function, Applied to the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 28 indexed citations

McCallen, David, et al.. (2021). Variability of near‐fault seismic risk to reinforced concrete buildings based on high‐resolution physics‐based ground motion simulations. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 50(6). 1713–1733. 14 indexed citations

McCallen, David, A. Petersson, Arthur Rodgers, et al.. (2020). EQSIM—A multidisciplinary framework for fault‐to‐structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers part I: Computational models and workflow. Earthquake Spectra. 37(2). 707–735. 77 indexed citations

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McCallen, David, et al.. (2020). EQSIM—A multidisciplinary framework for fault‐to‐structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers, part II: Regional simulations of building response. Earthquake Spectra. 37(2). 736–761. 45 indexed citations

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Pitarka, Arben, et al.. (2019). Simulated Effects of Shallow Crustal Heterogeneity, Surface Topography, and Seismic Source Depth on Coda Wave Generation for Magnitude-Based Depth Discrimination. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Pitarka, Arben. (2014). Modeling Seawater Layer Effects on Ground Motion at Ocean-Bottom Floor Sites From Offshore Earthquakes. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3100. 1 indexed citations

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Pitarka, Arben, et al.. (2013). Evaluation of Seismic-Acoustic Analysis Methods for a Real-time UXO Monitoring System. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 18(1). 71–85. 3 indexed citations

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Somerville, Paul, et al.. (2006). Simulation of ground motion scaling characteristics for the NGA-E Project. 7984–7993. 5 indexed citations

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Somerville, Paul & Arben Pitarka. (2006). Differences in Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Characteristics between Surface and Buried Crustal Earthquakes. 5679–5688. 25 indexed citations

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Day, Steven M., Jacobo Bielak, Douglas S. Dreger, et al.. (2004). Source-Averaged Basin Effects from 3D Ground Motion Simulations. AGUFM. 2004. 4 indexed citations

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Harris, Ruth, Ralph J. Archuleta, B. Aagaard, et al.. (2004). The Source Physics of Large Earthquakes - Validating Spontaneous Rupture Methods. AGUFM. 2004. 11 indexed citations

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Graves, Robert & Arben Pitarka. (2003). Simulation of Broadband Time Histories Combining Deterministic and Stochastic Methodologies. AGUFM. 2003. 2 indexed citations

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Irikura, Kojiro, Tomotaka Iwata, Haruko Sekiguchi, Arben Pitarka, & Katsuhiro Kamae. (1996). LESSON FROM THE 1995 HYOGO-KEN NANBU EARTHQUAKE : WHY WERE SUCH DESTRUCTIVE MOTIONS GENERATED TO BUILDINGS?. Journal of Natural Disaster Science. 18(2). 99–127. 20 indexed citations

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Pitarka, Arben, Kojiro Irikura, & Takao Kagawa. (1995). SOURCE COMPLEXITY OF THE JANUARY 17,1995 HYOGOKEN-NAMBU EARTHQUAKE DETERMINED BY NEAR-FIELD STRONG MOTION MODELING : PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Journal of Natural Disaster Science. 16(3). 31–37. 7 indexed citations

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