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Authors: Ambraseys, N.¹; Douglas, J.²; Sarma, S.³; Smit, P.⁴

Source: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Volume 3, Number 1, January 2005 , pp. 1-53(53)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

This article presents equations for the estimation of horizontal strong ground motions caused by shallow crustal earthquakes with magnitudes M_w

5 and distance to the surface projection of the fault less than 100km. These equations were derived by weighted regression analysis, used to remove observed magnitude-dependent variance, on a set of 595 strong-motion records recorded in Europe and the Middle East. Coefficients are included to model the effect of local site effects and faulting mechanism on the observed ground motions. The equations include coefficients to model the observed magnitude-dependent decay rate. The main findings of this study are that: short-period ground motions from small and moderate magnitude earthquakes decay faster than the commonly assumed 1/r, the average effect of differing faulting mechanisms is not large and corresponds to factors between 0.8 (normal and odd) and 1.3 (thrust) with respect to strike-slip motions and that the average long-period amplification caused by soft soil deposits is about 2.6 over those on rock sites. Disappointingly the standard deviations associated with the derived equations are not significantly lower than those found in previous studies.

Keywords: strong ground motion estimation; attenuation relations; Europe; Middle East

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1007/s10518-005-0183-0

Affiliations: 1: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK, Email: n.ambraseys@imperial.ac.uk 2: ARN/RIS, BRGM, 3 Avenue C, Guillemin, BP 6009, 45060, Orléans Cedex 2, France, 3: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK, 4: National Emergency Operations Centre, CH-8044, Zürich, Switzerland,

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Equations for the Estimation of Strong Ground Motions from Shallow Crustal Earthquakes Using Data from Europe and the Middle East: Horizontal Peak Ground Acceleration and Spectral Acceleration