New insights into path attenuation of ground motions in northeast India and northwest Himalayas

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2550-2560

  Nayak, Avinash ^a   Nath, Sankar Kumar ^a   Thingbaijam, Kiran Kumar Singh ^a   Baruah, Saurabh ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b CSIR NORTH EAST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR MODELS; DATA SETS; FOURIER AMPLITUDES; FOURIER SPECTRA; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; HIMALAYAS; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; LOW FREQUENCY; NORTHEASTERN INDIA; PATH ATTENUATION; QUALITY FACTORS; TRILINEAR MODEL;

SHEAR WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; STRONG MOTION;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 80053200471     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100207     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Allen, T. I., P. R Cummins, T. Dhu, and J. F. Schneider (2007). Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in southeastern Australia, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 97, no. 4, 1279-1292.
2. Atkinson, G. (2004). Empirical attenuation of ground motion spectral amplitudes in southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, no. 3, 1079-1095.
3. Atkinson, G., and D. Boore (1995). New ground motion relations for eastern North America, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 85, no. 1, 17-30.
4. Atkinson, G., and R. Mereu (1992). The shape of ground motion attenuation curves in southeastern Canada, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 82, no. 5, 2014-2031.
5. Baruah, S., D. K. Bora, and R. Biswas (2010). Estimation of crustal discontinuities from reflected seismic waves recorded at Shillong and Mikir Hills Plateau, Northeast India, Int. J. Earth Sci., doi 10.1007/s00531-010-0541-2.
6. Boore, D. (2003). Simulation of ground motion using the stochastic method, Pure Appl. Geophys. 160, 635-676.
7. Bowman, J., and B. Kennett (1991). Propagation of Lg waves in the North Australian craton: Influence of crustal velocity gradients, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 81, no. 2, 592-610.
8. Burger, R. W., P. G. Somerville, J. S. Barker, R. B. Herrmann, and D. V. Helmberger (1987). The effect of crustal structure on strong ground motion attenuation relations in eastern North America, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 77, no. 2, 420-439.
9. Castro, R. R., J. G. Anderson, and S. K. Singh (1990). Site response, attenuation and source spectra of S waves along the Guerrro, Mexico, subduction zone, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 80, no. 6A, 1481-1503.
10. Castro, R. R., F. Pacor, A. Sala, and C. Petrungaro (1996). S wave attenuation and site effects in the region of Friuli, Italy, J. Geophys. Res. 101, no. B10, 22,355-22,369.
11. Clinton, J. F., and T. H. Heaton (2002). Potential advantages of a strongmotion velocity meter over a strong-motion accelerometer, Seismol. Res. Lett. 73, no. 3, 332-342.
12. Dainty, A. M. (1981). A scattering model to explain seismic Q observations in the lithosphere between 1 and 30 Hz, Geophys. Res. Lett. 8, no. 11, 1126-1128.
13. Dasgupta, S., P. Pande, D. Ganguly, Z. Iqbal, K. Sanyal, N. V. Venaktraman, S. Dasgupta, B. Sural, L. Harendranath, K. Mazumadar, S. Sanyal, A. Roy, L. K. Das, P. S. Misra, and H. Gupta (2000). Seismotectonic Atlas of India and its Environs, Geological Survey of India
14. Herrmann, R., and A. Kijko (1983). Modeling some empirical vertical component Lg relations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 73, no. 1, 157-171.
15. Hough, S. E., R. Bilham, N. Ambraseys, and N. Feldl (2005). Revisiting the 1897 Shillong and 1905 Kangra earthquakes in northern India: Site response, Moho reflections and a triggered earthquake, Curr. Sci. 88, no. 10, 1632-1638.
16. Joshi, A. (2006). Use of acceleration spectra for determining the frequencydependent attenuation coefficient and source parameters, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 6, 2165-2180.
17. Kayal, J. R. (2008). Microearthquake Seismology and Seismotectonics of South Asia, Capital Publishing Company, Crofton, Maryland.
18. Kennett, B. (1986). Lg waves and structural boundaries, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 76, no. 4, 1133-1141.
19. Mitra, S., K. Priestley, V. K. Gaur, and S. S. Rai (2006). Frequencydependent Lg attenuation in the Indian platform, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 6, 2449-2456.
20. Motazedian, D. (2006). Region-specific key seismic parameters for earthquakes in northern Iran, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, no. 4A, 1383-1395.
21. Motulsky, H., and A. Christopoulos (2004). Fitting Models to Biological Data Using Linear and Nonlinear Regression: A Practical Guide to Curve Fitting, Oxford University Press U.S., 142.
22. Nath, S. K., V. Madhav, I. Pal, and P. Sengupta (2005). A seismic hazard scenario in the Sikkim Himalaya from seismotectonics, spectral amplification, source parameterization, and spectral attenuation laws using strong motion seismometry, J. Geophys. Res. 110, B01301, doi 10.1029/2004JB003199.
23. Nath, S. K., A. Raj, J. Sharma, K. K. S. Thingbaijam, A. Kumar, D. R. Nandy, A. Yadav, S. Dasgupta, K. Majumdar, J. R. Kayal, A. K. Shukla, S. K. Deb, J. Pathak, P. J. Hazarika, D. K. Paul, and B. K. Bansal (2008). Site amplification, QS, and source parameterization in Guwahati region from seismic and geotechnical analysis, Seismol. Res. Lett. 79, no. 4, 526-539.
24. Nath, S. K., K. Shukla, and M. Vyas (2008). Seismic hazard scenario and attenuation model of the Garhwal Himalaya using near-field synthesis from weak motion seismometry, J. Ear. Sys. Sci. 117, no. S2, 649-670.
25. Nath, S. K., K. K. Thingbaijam, and A. Raj (2008). Earthquake hazard in NE India-A seismic microzonation approach with typical case studies from Sikkim Himalaya and Guwahati city, J. Ear. Sys. Sci. 117, no. S2, 809-831.
26. Ordaz, M., and S. K. Singh (1992). Source spectra and spectral attenuation of seismic waves from Mexican earthquakes and evidence of amplification in the hill zone of Mexico City, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 82, no. 1, 24-43.
27. Ou, G., and R. Herrmann (1990). A statistical model for peak ground motion from local to regional distances, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 80, no. 6A, 1397-1417.
28. Raj, A., S. K. Nath, B. K. Bansal, K. K. S. Thingbaijam, A. Kumar, N. Thiruvengadam, A. Yadav, and M. L. Arrawatia (2009). Rapid estimation of source parameters using finite fault modeling-Case studies from the Sikkim and Garhwal Himalayas, Seismol. Res. Lett. 80, no. 1, 89-96.
29. Shin, T., and R. Herrmann (1987). Lg attenuation and source studies using 1982 Miramichi data, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 77, no. 2, 384-397.
30. Singh, S. K., D. Garcia, J. F. Pacheco, R. Valenzuela, B. K. Bansal, and R. S. Dattatrayam (2004). Q of the Indian shield, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, no. 4, 1564-1570.
31. w = 5.8) and estimation of ground motion from future earthquakes in the Indian shield region, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 89, no. 6, 1620-1630.
32. Wilkie, J., and G. Gibson (1994). Estimation of seismic quality factor Q for Victoria, Australia, AGSO J. Aus. Geol. Geophys. 15, 511-517.