Author:
Chavarría Nathalie,Yokoi Toshiaki,Hayashida Takumi
Abstract
AbstractWe performed the spectral inversion to separate the source, path, and site effects using strong ground motion records from essential facilities such as powerhouses and hydroelectric dams, distributed all over Costa Rica. The spectral inversion technique was adapted to a sparsely observed strong motion data set. We used the results to estimate strong ground motions at sites where there were no observation records in and around the intensity anomaly that appeared during the 2012 Sámara earthquake of Mw 7.6. To ensure the quality, we incorporated a broadband station to estimate levels of acceleration source spectra for six events 5.3 ≤ Mw ≤ 6.5, using them as the reference events for the spectral inversion. In this paper, we introduced two consistency checks: confirmation of the correctness of the input data, and verification of the output using synthetic spectra. We used them as an iterative implementation of sequences of elimination of suspicious data and inversions. We regulated the source spectra of the reference events for the final inversion, considering the estimate of site effect for one-dimensional SH wave propagation at the site of the lowest site amplification. We obtained the frequency-dependent quality factor Q = 179f0.5598 for the northern and central parts of Costa Rica. From the output of the spectral inversion, we reproduced the acceleration spectra of earthquakes in the sites where the event was not recorded. We applied this formulation using the earthquake mentioned above. The resulting synthetic spectra are consistent with the anomalous intensity distribution reported at that time.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics
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