Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity

Thaleia Travasarou; Jonathan D. Bray; Norman A. Abrahamson

doi:10.1002/eqe.270

journal article Mar 06, 2003

Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity

Thaleia Travasarou Jonathan D. Bray Norman A. Abrahamson

Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics Vol. 32 No. 7 pp. 1133-1155 · Wiley

View at Publisher Save 10.1002/eqe.270

Abstract

AbstractArias Intensity is a ground motion parameter that captures the potential destructiveness of an earthquake as the integral of the square of the acceleration–time history. It correlates well with several commonly used demand measures of structural performance, liquefaction, and seismic slope stability. A new empirical relationship is developed to estimate Arias Intensity as a function of magnitude, distance, fault mechanism, and site category based on 1208 recorded ground motion data from 75 earthquakes in active plate‐margins. Its functional form is derived from the point‐source model, and the coefficients are determined through non‐linear regression analyses using a random‐effects model. The results show that for large magnitude earthquakes (M > 7) Arias Intensity was significantly overestimated by previous relationships while it was underestimated for smaller magnitude events (M ⩽ 6). The average horizontal Arias Intensity is not significantly affected by forward rupture directivity in the near‐fault region. The aleatory variability associated with Arias Intensity is larger than that of most other ground motion parameters such as spectral acceleration. However, it may be useful in assessing the potential seismic performance of stiff engineering systems whose response is dominated by the short‐period characteristics of ground motions. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References

34

[1]

Arias A (1970)

[2]

Harp EL "Shaking intensity thresholds for rock falls and slides: Evidence from 1987 Whittier Narrows and Superstition Hills earthquake strong‐motion records" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1995)

[3]

10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(1997)123:12(1162)

[4]

10.1002/(sici)1096-9845(199701)26:1<79::aid-eqe624>3.0.co;2-y

[5]

10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(2002)128:1(54)

[6]

Araya MR (1984)

[7]

WilsonRC KeeferDK.Predicting areal limits of earthquake‐induced landsliding. Ziony JI (ed.) Evaluating Earthquake Hazards in the Los Angeles Region—An Earth‐Science Perspective USGS Professional Paper 1360 (1985).

[8]

PacielloA RinaldisD RomeoR.Incorporating ground motion parameters related to earthquake damage into seismic hazard analysis. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Seismic Zonation: Managing Earthquake Risk in the 21st Century Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Oakland CA 2000.

[9]

10.1139/cgj-36-1-72

[10]

Mackie K (2002)

[11]

10.1193/1.1586167

[12]

10.1193/1.1586147

[13]

StewartJP LiuAH ChoiY BaturayMB.Amplification factors for spectral acceleration in active regions Report No. PEER‐2001/10 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center December2001 132pp.

[14]

10.1785/0120000736

[15]

Spudich P "SEA99: A revised ground motion prediction relation for use in extensional tectonic regimes" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1999) 10.1785/bssa0890051156

[16]

Tectonic stress and the spectra of seismic shear waves from earthquakes

James N. Brune

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 10.1029/jb075i026p04997

[17]

Correction [to “Tectonic stress and the spectra, of seismic shear waves from earthquakes”]

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 10.1029/jb076i020p05002

[18]

Boore DM "Stochastic simulation of high‐frequency ground motions based on seismological models of the radiated spectra" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1983)

[19]

Anderson JG "A model for the shape of the Fourier amplitude spectrum of acceleration at high frequencies" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1984)

[20]

10.1193/1.1585292

[21]

10.1785/gssrl.68.1.154

[22]

10.1785/gssrl.68.1.180

[23]

AbrahamsonNA BeckerA. Proceedings of the MCEER workshop on ground motion methodologies for the Eastern United States held at Sheraton Four Points Hotel Memphis Tennessee 16–17 October1997.

[24]

Somerville PG "Magnitude scaling of near fault ground motions" Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (2000)

[25]

New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement

Donald L. Wells, Kevin J. Coppersmith

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1994 10.1785/bssa0840040974

[26]

10.2307/1390807

[27]

SchneiderJF SteppJC AbrahamsonNA.The spatial variation of earthquake ground motion and effects of local site conditions. Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering1992;967–972.

[28]

10.1785/bssa0850041161

[29]

10.1785/gssrl.68.1.94

[30]

AbrahamsonNA SilvaWJ.Empirical ground motion models Draft Report prepared for Brookhaven National Laboratory 6 May 1996.

[31]

SomervillePG.Engineering characteristics of near fault ground motion. SMIP 97 Seminar on Utilization of Strong Motion Data Los Angeles CA 1997.

[32]

Rodriguez‐MarekA.Near‐fault seismic site response. Ph.D. Dissertation University of California Berkeley 2000.

[33]

Simplified Frequency Content Estimates of Earthquake Ground Motions

Ellen M. Rathje, Norman A. Abrahamson, Jonathan D. Bray

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engin... 10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(1998)124:2(150)

[34]

LucoN CornellAC.Structure‐specific scalar intensity measures for near‐source and ordinary earthquake ground motions submitted to Earthquake Spectra.

Metrics

216

Citations

34

References

Details

Published: Mar 06, 2003
Vol/Issue: 32(7)
Pages: 1133-1155
License: View

Authors

T

Thaleia Travasarou

Fugro Consultants Inc. Oakland CA USA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company 245 Market St. San Francisco CA 94105

Cite This Article

Thaleia Travasarou, Jonathan D. Bray, Norman A. Abrahamson (2003). Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 32(7), 1133-1155. https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.270

Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity

You May Also Like