Publication Date:
2020-10-01
Description:
Predictive relationships for the ground motion in the Marmara region (northwestern Turkey)
are parametrized after regressing three-component waveforms from regional earthquakes, in
the frequency range: 0.4–15.0 Hz, and in the distance range: 10–200 km. The data set consists
of 2400 three-component recordings from 462 earthquakes, recorded at 53 stations. Moment
magnitudes, Mw, range between 2.5 and 7.2. The largest event for which we have waveforms
available (Mw 7.2) occurred in Duzce on 1999 November 12. The aftershocks of that earthquake,
together with the aftershocks of the 1999 August 17 Izmit event (Mw = 7.4), are
included in the dataset.
Regressions are performed, independently, on Fourier velocity spectra and on peak ground
velocities, for a large number of sampling frequencies. A simple model is used to relate the
logarithm of the measured ground motion to excitation, site, and propagation terms. Results
obtained for peak velocities are used to define a piecewise continuous geometrical spreading
function, g(r), a frequency-dependent Q(f ), and a distance-dependent duration function. The
latter is used, through random vibration theory (RVT), in order to predict time-domain characteristics
(i.e. peak values) of the ground motion. The complete model obtained for the peak
ground motion was used to match the results of the regressions on the Fourier amplitudes.
Fourier velocity spectra for the combined horizontal motion are best fit by a hinged quadrilinear
geometrical spreading function for observations in the 10–200 km hypocentral distance
ranges as a function of frequency: f 〈 1.0 Hz, r−1.2 for r ≤ 30 km; r−0.7 for 30 〈 r ≤ 60 km;
r−1.4 for 60〈r ≤100 km; r−0.1 for r 〉100, f ≥1.0 Hz, r−1.0 for r ≤30 km; r−0.6 for 30〈r ≤ 60 km; r−0.9 for 60〈r ≤100 km; r−0.1 for r 〉100 km. The frequency-dependent crustal shearwave
quality factor Q (f ) coefficient Q( f )=180 f 0.45. The T (5–75 per cent) duration window
provides good agreement between observed and predicted peak values. By modelling the
behaviour of the small earthquakes at high frequency, we also quantified a regional parameter
κ = 0.055 s. Spectral models with one single-corner frequency (Brune), and with two-corner
frequencies (Atkinson and Silva) fit the observed high-frequency excitation levels equallywell,
whereas the model by Atkinson and Silva fits the low-frequency observations slightly better
than Brune’s.
RVT is used to predict the absolute levels of ground shaking, following Boore’s implementation
of the stochastic ground motion model (Boore’s SMSIM codes). Our regional empirical
predictive relationships are compared to the ones adopted in several regions of the world, from
California to Western United States.
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Published
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635-651
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JCR Journal
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reserved
Keywords:
attenuation
;
ground motion scaling
;
ground motion scaling
;
Turkey
;
04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.04. Ground motion
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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