The improvement of the earthquake and microseismic Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) in estimating site efects

Sarmadi, Mohammad Ali; Heidari, Reza; Mirzaei, Noorbakhsh; Siahkoohi, Hamid Reza

doi:10.1007/s11600-021-00619-0

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The improvement of the earthquake and microseismic Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) in estimating site efects

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Sarmadi Mohammad Ali , Heidari Reza , Mirzaei Noorbakhsh , Siahkoohi Hamid Reza

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10.1007/s11600-021-00619-0

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The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) has been widely used to calculate near-surface site efects including funda mental resonance frequency and soil amplifcation. In this study, we investigated the features of HVSR in order to assess the reliability of this method. The main premise of Nakamura (1989; Nakamura, Y., 2000. Clear identifcation of fundamental idea of Nakamura’s technique and its applications. In: Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineer ing. Auckland, New Zealand.) HVSR method is to assume there are little to no amplifcation or de-amplifcation of motion recorded by the vertical component. In this study, we disregarded this assumption and used diferent proposed spectral ratios of earthquake accelerograms to examine and evaluate the accuracy of the HVSR technique. In addition, to increase the accuracy of the results, near-surface attenuation parameter Kappa (K), as an important spectral decay parameter which has infuence on the site efects, has been incorporated in proposed spectral ratios. The efciency of proposed spectral ratios was evaluated using 3948 accelerograms (Includes surface and borehole stations) of 496 earthquakes from 18 KiK-net accelerometery stations of the two regions of Japan with moment magnitudes ranging from 3 to 5. The two selected areas have diferent geological characteristics and diferent site efects parameters. According to the results, The HVSR method is under-determined at stations where the waves are mainly amplifed as they pass through the site. Moreover, in a single sta tion by calculating the amplifcation value on the vertical component, Site efects measurements obtained from surface and borehole data along with classical HVSR technique have a lower mean absolute error than those obtained by using HVSR technique alone.

Słowa kluczowe

resonance frequency soil amplification site effect spectral decay parameter KiK-net network

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Instytut Geofizyki PAN
Springer

Czasopismo

Acta Geophysica

Rocznik

2021

Tom

Vol. 69, no. 4

Strony

1177--1188

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 61 poz.

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autor

Sarmadi Mohammad Ali

Department of Earth Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

autor

Heidari Reza

r.heidari@srbiau.ac.ir

Department of Earth Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

autor

Mirzaei Noorbakhsh

Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

autor

Siahkoohi Hamid Reza

Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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