Affiliation:
1. 1Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Abstract
Abstract
Considering 869 ground-motion recordings from moderate-to-strong earthquakes that occurred in 2007–2019, this work investigates the variation of site amplification factors and develops an empirical site amplification model of the north–south seismic belt of China. The work first regresses a simple empirical ground-motion model (GMM) for the averaged reference site (the average shear-wave velocity for the top 30 m of the Earth (VS30) is about 760 m/s) by 322 recordings of the dataset. The regressed reference site model indicates that the slow distance attenuation still exists in earthquakes of the north–south seismic belt. Then, using the derived reference site model and 869 recordings, empirical site factors are computed and an empirical site amplification model is regressed. For the earthquakes in the north–south seismic belt, the proposed site amplification model predicts the site amplification for the 50th percentile rotated pseudospectral acceleration (RotD50 SA) with a damping ratio of 5% and periods 0.01–10 s. Moreover, the difference in site amplification factors between the north–south seismic belt of China and those of the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) database is investigated. In general, variations of site amplification factors of the north–south seismic belt of China with VS30 are less significant than those from the NGA database. Therefore, the regional differences of ground motions caused by site effects are significant for the north–south seismic belt of China. For short periods (<1.0 s) and large values of VS30 (>300 m/s), the median site amplification of the north–south seismic belt is fitted well with most model predictions and the NGA data. The residual regional differences in the north–south seismic belt of China after site corrections can be applied to develop the more efficient global GMMs.
Publisher
Seismological Society of America (SSA)
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