2017/06/28 by Abhineet Gupta, Jack W. Baker, William L. Ellsworth · 2 citations
Engineering · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Seismic Performance and Analysis #Seismic Waves and Analysis #Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
paper · doi:10.1785/0220160199
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Research Article| June 28, 2017 Assessing Ground‐Motion Amplitudes and Attenuation for Small‐to‐Moderate Induced and Tectonic Earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States Abhineet Gupta; Abhineet Gupta aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Blume Center, Building 540, 439 Panama Mall, Room 206, Stanford, California 94305 U.S.A., [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Jack W. Baker; Jack W. Baker bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Room 283, Stanford, California 94305‐4020 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar William L. Ellsworth William L. Ellsworth cDepartment of Geophysics, Stanford University, Mitchell Building, 397 Panama Mall, Room 373B, Stanford, California 94305 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Abhineet Gupta aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Blume Center, Building 540, 439 Panama Mall, Room 206, Stanford, California 94305 U.S.A., [email protected] Jack W. Baker bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Room 283, Stanford, California 94305‐4020 U.S.A. William L. Ellsworth cDepartment of Geophysics, Stanford University, Mitchell Building, 397 Panama Mall, Room 373B, Stanford, California 94305 U.S.A. Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 15 Sep 2017 Online Issn: 1938-2057 Print Issn: 0895-0695 © Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2017) 88 (5): 1379–1389. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220160199 Article history First Online: 15 Sep 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Abhineet Gupta, Jack W. Baker, William L. Ellsworth; Assessing Ground‐Motion Amplitudes and Attenuation for Small‐to‐Moderate Induced and Tectonic Earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States. Seismological Research Letters 2017;; 88 (5): 1379–1389. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220160199 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search ABSTRACT In this article, we evaluate the ground‐motion prediction equations (GMPEs) described by Atkinson (2015) and Shahjouei and Pezeshk (2016) with ground‐motion data collected from the central and eastern United States (CEUS). The former GMPE was developed for small‐to‐moderate events at short hypocentral distances with application to induced earthquakes in eastern North America, using the ground‐motion database developed by the Next Generation Attenuation‐West2 (NGA‐West2) project (Bozorgnia et al., 2014). The latter GMPE was developed for the central and eastern North America for the NGA‐East project (Frankel, 2015). We compare spectral amplitudes from 46,178 ground‐motion recordings at 1069 stations from 2873 earthquakes in the CEUS to the GMPEs. The ground‐motion catalog is divided into potentially‐induced and tectonic earthquakes using the classification scheme of Petersen et al. (2015), and their differences in geometric spreading are observed. We observe that the Atkinson (2015) GMPE is a good fit for ground motions at hypocentral distances of less than 60 km, and that the Shahjouei and Pezeshk (2016) GMPE captures the geometric spreading of ground motions at larger distances, for both induced and tectonic earthquakes. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.