Variability of kinematic source parameters and its implication on the choice of the design scenario

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 941-953

  Cultrera, Giovanna ^a   Cirella, Antonella ^a   Spagnuolo, Elena ^a   Herrero, André ^a   Tinti, Elisa ^a   Pacor, Francesca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE DISTANCE; DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT GEOMETRY; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; KINEMATIC SOURCE PARAMETERS; LOW FREQUENCY BAND; NEAR-FAULT; NUCLEATION POINTS; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; RUPTURE MODELS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC RECORDING; SEISMIC SCENARIOS; SITE EFFECTS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SOURCE REGION; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SEISMOLOGY; TIME SERIES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMPLEXITY; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; HETEROGENEITY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK ACCELERATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77952625419     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090044     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Aki, K., and P. G. Richards (2002). Quantitative Seismology: Theory and Methods, Second Ed., University Science Books, Sausalito, CA.
2. Akkar, S., and J. J. Bommer (2007). Prediction of elastic displacement response spectra in Europe and the Middle East, Earthq. Eng. Struct. D. 36, 1275-1301.
3. Amato, A., and G. Selvaggi (1993). Aftershock location and P-velocity structure in the epicentral region of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, Ann. Geofisc. 36, 3-15.
4. Ameri, G., A. Akinci, M. Cocco, G. Cultrera, G. Franceschina, F. Pacor, V. Pessina, and A. M. Lombardi (2007). Ground motion scenario for selected cities, in Technical dissemination N. 8 SP11-Prediction of Ground Motion and Loss Scenarios for Selected Infrastructure Systems in European Urban Environment, E. Faccioli (Editor), IUSS Press, Pavia, Italy, ISBN 978-88-6198-012-9, 41-58.
5. Ameri, G., F. Pacor, G. Cultrera, and G. Franceschina (2008). Deterministic ground-motion scenarios for engineering applications: The case of Thessaloniki, Greece, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, no. 3, 1289-1303.
6. Andrews, D. J. (1976). Rupture velocity of plane strain shear cracks, J. Geophys. Res. 81, no. 32, 5679-5687.
7. Andrews, D. J. (1980). A stochastic fault model 1. Static case, J. Geophys. Res. 85, 3867-3877.
8. Andrews, D. J., T. C. Hanks, and J. W. Whitney (2007). Physical limits on ground motion at Yucca Mountain, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 97, 1771-1792.
9. Ansal, A., A. Akinci, G. Cultrera, M. Erdik, V. Pessina, G. Tonuk, and G. Ameri (2009). Loss estimation in Istanbul based on deterministic earthquake scenarios of the Marmara Sea region (Turkey), Soil Dynam. Earthquake Eng. 29, no. 4, 699-709.
10. Aochi, H., and J. Douglas (2006). Testing the validity of simulated strong ground motion from the dynamic rupture of a finite fault, by using empirical equations, Bull. Earthquake Eng. 4, 211-229, doi 10.1007/s10518-006-0001-3.
11. Baker, J. W., and C. A. Cornell (2006). Vector-valued ground motion intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand analysis, PEER Report 2006/08, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center-College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
12. Bazzurro, P., and C. A. Cornell (1999). Disaggregation of seismic hazard, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 89, no. 2, 501-520.
13. Bazzurro, P., and C. A. Cornell (2001). Vector-valued probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, Seism. Res. Lett. 72, no. 2, 273.
14. Bernard, P., A. Herrero, and C. Berge (1996). Modeling directivity of heterogeneous earthquake ruptures, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 86, 1149-1160.
15. Beroza, G. C., and P. Spudich (1988). Linearized inversion for fault rupture behavior-Application to the 1984 Morgan-Hill, California, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 93, no. B6, 6275-6296.
16. Birgören, G., H. Sekiguchi, and K. Irikura (2004). Rupture model of the 1999 Duzce, Turkey, earthquake deduced from high and low frequency strong motion data, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L05610, doi 10.1029/2003GL019194.
17. Bizzarri, A., and P. Spudich (2008). Effects of supershear rupture speed on the high-frequency content of S waves investigated using spontaneous dynamic rupture models and isochrone theory, J. Geophys. Res. 113, B05304, doi 10.1029/2007JB005146.
18. Bizzarri, A., M. Cocco, D. J. Andrews, and E. Boschi (2001). Solving the dynamic rupture problem with different numerical approaches and constitutive laws, Geophys. J. Int. 144, 656-678.
19. Bommer, J. J., and N. A. Abrahamson (2006). Why do modern probabilistic seismic-hazard analyses often lead to increased hazard estimates? Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 6, 1967-1977, doi 10.1785/0120060043.
20. Bommer, J. J., and J. E. Alarcón (2006). The prediction and use of peak ground velocity, J. Earthquake Eng. 10, no. 1, 1-31, doi 10.1142/S1363246906002463.
21. Bommer, J. J., P. J. Stafford, and S. Akkar (2010). Current empirical ground-motion prediction equations for Europe and their application to Eurocode 8, Bull. Earthquake Eng. 8, no. 1, 5-26, doi 10.1007/s10518-009-9122-9.
22. Boore, D. M., and G. M. Atkinson (2008). Ground-motion prediction equations for the average horizontal component of PGA, PGV, and 5%-damped PSA at spectral periods between 0.01 s and 10.0 s, Earthquake Spectra 24, 99-138.
23. Bouchon, M., M.-P. Bouin, H. Karabulut, M. N. Toksoz, M. Dietrich, and A. J. Rosakis (2001). How fast is rupture during an earthquake? New insights from the 1999 Turkey earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, no. 14, 2723-2726.
24. Bouchon, M., M. N. Toksöz, H. Karabulut, M.-P. Bouin, M. Dietrich, M. Aktar, and M. Edie (2002). Space and time evolution of rupture and faulting during the 1999 Izmit (Turkey) earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 92, no. 1, 256-266, doi 10.1785/0120000845.
25. Causse, M., F. Cotton, C. Cornou, and P.-Y. Bard (2008). Calibrating median and uncertainty estimates for a practical use of empirical Green's functions technique, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, no. 1, 344-353, doi 10.1785/0120070075.
26. Cirella, A., A. Piatanesi, E. Tinti, and M. Cocco (2006). Dynamically consistent source time functions to invert kinematic rupture histories, Eos Trans. AGU 87, no. 52 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S41B-1323.
27. Cirella, A., A. Piatanesi, E. Tinti, and M. Cocco (2008). Rupture process of the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki earthquake by non-linear joint inversion of strong motion and GPS data, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L16306, doi 10.1029/2008GL034756.
28. Cocco, M., and F. Pacor (1993). The rupture process of the 1980 Irpinia, Italy, earthquake from the inversion of strong motion waveforms, Tectonophysics 218, 157-177.
29. Cohee, B. P., and G. C. Beroza (1994). Slip distribution of the 1992 Landers earthquake and its implications for earthquake source mechanics, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 84, 693-712.
30. Convertito, V., and A. Herrero (2004). Influence of focal mechanism in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, 2124-2136.
31. Convertito, V., A. Emolo, and A. Zollo (2006). Seismic hazard assessment for a characteristic earthquake scenario: An integrated probabilistic-deterministic method, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 2, 377-391, doi 10.1785/0120050024.
32. Custódio, S., and R. J. Archuleta (2007). Parkfield earthquakes: Characteristic or complementarity?, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B05310, doi 10.1029/2006JB004617.
33. Das, S., and K. Aki (1977). A numerical study of two-dimensional spontaneous rupture propagation, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 50, 643-668.
34. Day, S. (1982). Three-dimensional finite-difference simulation of fault dynamics: Rectangular faults with fixed rupture velocity, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 72, 705-727.
35. Delouis, B., D. Giardini, P. Lundgren, and J. Salichon (2002). Joint inversion of Insar, GPS, teleseismic and strong-motion data for the spatial and temporal distribution of earthquake slip: Application to the 1999 Izmit mainshock, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 92, no. 1, 278-299.
36. Eurocode 8 (2004). Design of structures for earthquake resistance, part 1: General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings, EN 1998-1, European Committee for Standardization (CEN).
37. Frankel, A. (1991). High-frequency spectral falloff of earthquakes, fractal dimension of complex rupture, b value, and the scaling of strength on fault, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 6291-6302.
38. Guatteri, M., P. M. Mai, and G. C. Beroza (2004). A pseudo-dynamic approximation to dynamic rupture models for strong ground motion prediction, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, no. 6, 2051-2063.
39. g seismic source models: Implications for tectonic stress variations along active crustal fault zones and the estimation of high frequency strong ground motion, J. Geophys. Res. 84, 2235-2242.
40. Harris, R. A., and J. R. Arrowsmith (2006). Introduction to the special issue on the 2004 Parkfield earthquake and the Parkfield earthquake prediction experiment, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 4B, 1-10, doi 10.1785/0120050831.
41. Heaton, T. H. (1990). Evidence for and implication of self-healing pulses of slip in earthquake rupture, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 64, 1-20.
42. Herrero, A., and P. Bernard (1994). A kinematic self-similar rupture process for earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 84, 1216-1228.
43. Improta, L., M. Bonagura, P. Capuano, and G. Iannaccone (2003). An integrated geophysical investigation of the upper crust in the epicentral area of the 1980, MS 6:9, Irpinia earthquake (southern Italy), Tectonophysics 361, no. 1-2, 139-169.
44. Irikura, K., H. Miyake, T. Iwata, K. Kamae, H. Kawabe, and L. A. Dalguer (2004). Recipe for predicting strong ground motions from future large earthquakes, Proceedings of the 13th World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, August 2004, paper number 1371.Engineering, Vancouver, August 2004, paper number 1371.
45. Joyner, W. B., and D. M. Boore (1981). Peak horizontal acceleration and velocity from strong-motion records including records from the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 71, no. 6, 2011-2038.
46. Liu, P., and R. Archuleta (2004). A new nonlinear finite fault inversion with three-dimensional Green's functions: Application to the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 109, B02318, doi 10.1029/2003JB002625.
47. w 7:6-Inverted from teleseismic data, Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 3417-3420.
48. Mai, P. M., P. Spudich, and J. Boatwright (2005). Hypocenter locations in finite-source rupture models, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 95, 965-980.
49. Manighetti, I., M. Campillo, C. Sammis, P. M. Mai, and G. King (2005). Evidence for self-similar, triangular slip distributions on earthquakes: Implications for earthquake and fault mechanics, J. Geophys. Res. 110, B05302, doi 10.1029/2004JB003174.
50. Manighetti, I., G. King, Y. Gaudemer, C. Scholz, and C. Doubre (2001). Slip accumulation and lateral propagation of active normal fault in Afar, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 13,667-13,696.
51. Nielsen, S., and R. Madariaga (2003). On the self-healing fracture mode, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 93, 2375-2388.
52. Oglesby, D. D., D. S. Dreger, R. A. Harris, N. Ratchkovski, and R. Hansen (2004). Inverse kinematic and forward dynamic models of the 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, S214-S233.
53. Ohnaka, M., and L. Shen (1999). Scaling of the shear rupture process from nucleation to dynamic propagation: Implications of geometric irregularity of the rupturing surfaces, J. Geophys. Res. 104, no. B1, 817-844.
54. Olivares, L., and F. Silvestri (2001). Analisi della risposta sismica e della subsidenza post-sismica del colle di Bisaccia a seguito del terremoto irpino-lucano del 1980, Proc. of the X National Conf. of Italian National Association of Earthquake Engineering, Potenza-Matera, Italy, 9-13 September 2001.
55. Piatanesi, A., A. Cirella, P. Spudich, and M. Cocco (2007). A global search inversion for earthquake kinematic rupture history: Application to the 2000 western Tottori, Japan earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B07314, doi 10.1029/2006JB004821.
56. Piatanesi, A., E. Tinti, M. Cocco, and E. Fukuyama (2004). The dependence of traction evolution on the earthquake source time function adopted in kinematic rupture models, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L04609, doi 10.1029/2003GL019225.
57. Ripperger, J., P. M. Mai, and J.-P. Ampuero (2008). Variability of near-field ground motion from dynamic earthquake rupture simulations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 98, 1207-1228.
58. Rodgers, A. J., X. Xie, and A. Petersson (2007). Bounding ground motions for Hayward fault scenario earthquakes using suites of stochastic rupture models, Eos Trans. AGU 88, no. 52 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S21A-0232.
59. Rosakis, A. J., O. Samudrala, and D. Coker (1999). Cracks faster than the shear wave speed, Science 284, no. 5418, 1337-1339.
60. Ruiz, J. A. (2007). Modélisation d'accélérogrammes synthétiques large-bande par modélisation de la cinématique de la rupture sismique, Ph.D. Thesis, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France.
61. SCEC/CME CyberShake Project, http://epicenter.usc.edu/cmeportal/CyberShake.html (last accessed January 2010).
62. Sekiguchi, H. (2007). Validation of a broadband source modeling method of interplate earthquakes, Eos Trans. AGU 88, no 52 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S34A-06.
63. Shakal, A., V. Graizer, M. Huang, H. Haddadi, and K. Lin (2005). Strong-motion data from the M 6.0 Parkfield earthquake of September 28, 2004, Proc. of SMIP05 Seminar on Utilization of Strong Motion Data, Los Angeles, California, 1-18.
64. Somerville, P., K. Irikura, R. Graves, S. Sawada, D. Wald, N. Abrahamson, Y. Iwasaki, T. Kagawa, N. Smith, and A. Kowada (1999). Characterizing crustal earthquake slip models for the prediction of strong ground motion, Seism. Res. Lett. 70, no. 1, 59-80.
65. Sørensen, B. M., N. Pulido, and K. Atakan (2007). Sensitivity of ground-motion simulations to earthquake source parameters: A case study for Istanbul, Turkey, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 97, no. 3, 881-900, doi 10.1785/0120060044.
66. Spudich, P., and B. S.-J. Chiou (2008). Directivity in NGA earthquake ground motions: Analysis using isochrone theory, accepted, Earthquake Spectra 24, no. 1, 279-298.
67. Spudich, P., and L. Xu (2003). Documentation of software package Compsyn sxv3.11: Programs for earthquake ground motion calculation using complete 1-D Green's functions, International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, International Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior, Academic Press, London, UK.
68. Tinti, E., M. Cocco, E. Fukuyama, and A. Piatanesi (2009). Dependence of slip weakening distance (Dc) on final slip during dynamic rupture of earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int. 177, 1205-1220.
69. Tinti, E., E. Fukuyama, A. Piatanesi, and M. Cocco (2005). A kinematic source-time function compatible with earthquake dynamics, Bull. Seis-mol. Soc. Am. 95, 1211-1223.
70. Wang, H., H. Igel, F. Gallovic, A. Cochard, and M. Ewald (2008). Source-related variations of ground motions in 3-D media: Application to the Newport-Inglewood fault, Los Angeles basin, Geophys. J. Int. 175, 202-214.
71. Zeng, Y., J. G. Anderson, and G. Yu (1994). A composite source model for computing realistic synthetic strong ground motions, Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, 725-728.