A Method to Simulate High-Frequency Decay of Acceleration Spectra of Ground Motions without the Need for Kappa or fmax Filters

被引:4
作者
Beresnev, Igor A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Iowa State Univ, Dept Geol & Atmospher Sci, Ames, IA 50011 USA
关键词
SITE RESPONSE; JAPAN; EARTHQUAKES; ATTENUATION; RADIATION; MODEL; AREA; NET;
D O I
10.1785/0120220232
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
A well-known difficulty in the popular simulations of earthquake ground motions for seis-mic hazard assessment using the point-source model is overprediction of high-frequency spectra. Ad hoc high-cut filtering, known as fmax or the kappa effect, is required to render the high-frequency content to match observations. The physical origin of such filtering's realistically occurring in nature has remained largely unclear. The difficulty is naturally resolved if (1) the shape of the source time function is allowed to deviate from the tradi-tional form radiating the omega-square spectrum and replaced by the function producing the high-frequency falloff not equal to the power of 2, and (2) the high-frequency suppres-sion due to finite-fault dimensions (the finite-fault directivity) is accounted for. The veri-fication database consists of 20 earthquakes in the magnitude range from 4 to 6 recorded in boreholes on rock sites in southwestern Japan by the KiK-net network. The events are those observed by the greatest number of stations. Path-effect corrections using three independently determined attenuation laws lead to the isolation of the average observed source spectra. Simulations of the spectra through the kappa-filtered omega-square model offer no advantage over those using the omega -n source model combined with the finite -fault effect. The inclusion of fault directivity thus eliminates the need for kappa filtering. The high-frequency suppression, required to simulate realistic ground-motion spectra, can be fully explained by the source effect with clear physical meaning.
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页码:1115 / 1132
页数:18
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