Quantification of epistemic uncertainties in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis

Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering -Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 768-775

  Scherbaum, F ^a   Kuehn, N ^a   Ohrnberger, M ^a   Riggelsen, C ^a   Gianniotis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; INFORMATION THEORY; REDUNDANCY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; VECTOR SPACES;

CONTINUOUS MODELING; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC DISTANCE; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856738278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1201/b11332-116     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. Abrahamson, Norman, and Walter Silva (2008). Summary of the Abrahamson & Silva NGA Ground-Motion Relations, Earthquake Spectra, 24(1), 67-97.
2. Akkar, S., and J.J. Bommer (2010). Empirical Equations for the Prediction of Spectral Accelerations in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Seismological Research Letters, 81(2), 195-206.
3. Atkinson, Gail M., and David M. Boore (2006). Earthquake Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Eastern North America, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 97(3), 2181-2205.
4. Bommer, J.J., J. Douglas, F. Scherbaum, F. Cotton, H. Bungum, and D. Fäh (2010). On the Selection of Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Seismic Hazard Analysis, Seismological Research Letters, 81(5), 783-793.
5. Bommer, J.J., and F. Scherbaum (2008). The use and misuse of logic-trees in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis, Earthquake Spectra, 24(4), 997-1009.
6. Boore, David M., and Gail 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(1), 99-138.
7. Campbell, Kenneth W., and Yousef Bozorgnia (2008). NGA Ground Motion Model for the Geometric Mean Horizontal Component of PGA, PGV, PGDand 5% Damped Linear Elastic Response Spectra for Periods Ranging from 0.01 to 10 s, Earthquake Spectra, 24(1), 139-171.
8. Chiou, Brian S.J., and Robert R. Youngs (2008). An NGA Model for the Average Horizontal Component of Peak Ground Motion and Response Spectra, Earthquake Spectra, 24(1), 173-215.
9. Cotton, F., Scherbaum, F. Bommer, J.J. and H. Bungum (2006). Criteria for selecting and adjusting ground-motion models for specific target regions: application to Central Europe and rock sites, Journal of Seismology, 10, 137-156, DOI: 110.1007/s10950-10005-19006-10957.
10. Cover, T.M., and J.A. Thomas. (2006). Elements of information theory (2. ed.): Wiley & Sons Inc.
11. Kohonen, T. (2001). Self-organizing maps. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York Springer Verlag.
12. Riggelsen, C., N. Gianniotis, and F. Scherbaum. (2011). Learning Aggregations of Ground Motion Models From Data, ICASP11. Zürich.
13. Sammon, J.W. (1969). A nonlinear mapping for data structure analysis, IEEE Trans. on Computers, C-18(5), 401-409.
14. Scherbaum, F., J.J. Bommer, H. Bungum, F. Cotton, and N.A. Abrahamson (2005). Composite ground-motion models and logic trees: methodology, sensitivities, and uncertainties, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 95(5), 1575-1593.
15. Scherbaum, Frank, Elise Delavaud, and Carsten Riggelsen (2009). Model Selection in Seismic Hazard Analysis: An Information-Theoretic Perspective, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99(6), 3234-3247.
16. Scherbaum, F., N. Kuehn, M. Ohrnberger, and A. Koehler (2010). Exploring the Proximity of Ground-Motion Models Using High-Dimensional Visualization Techniques, Earthquake Spectra, 26(4), 1117-1138.
17. Scherbaum, Frank, Jan Schmedes, and Fabrice Cotton (2004). On the Conversion of Source-to-Site Distance Measures for Extended Earthquake Source Models 10.1785/0120020201, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 94(3), 1053-1069.
18. Stevens, S.S. (1946). On the theory of scales of measurement, Science, 103(2684), 677-680.
19. Toro, G.R. (2002). Modification of the Toro et al. (1997) Attenuation Equations for Large Magnitudes and Short Distances, pp. 1-10.
20. Zhao, John X., Kojiro Irikura, Jian Zhang, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Paul G. Somerville, Akihiro Asano, Yuki Ohno, Taishi Oouchi, Toshimasa Takahashi, and Hiroshi Ogawa (2006). An Empirical Site-Classification Method for Strong-Motion Stations in Japan Using H/V Response Spectral Ratio, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96(3), 914-925.