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Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessment: direct amplitude-based approach

Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessment: direct amplitude-based approach
Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessment: direct amplitude-based approach
Conventional probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment (PSHA) is difficult to apply in regions lacking sufficient information concerning geological setting, active faults, and so forth. Also, for a site-specific PSHA, site effects arising from both crustal rock and overlying soil sediments are generally not assessed rigorously. This is of particular importance for those metropolitan cities having a significant proportion of reclaimed land, because the site-to-site variability of such site effects can be very large. The objective of this article is to demonstrate an alternative procedure for assessing seismic hazard, developed from the conventional source-based Cornell-McGuire PSHA approach, based on considering an infinite number of sources. The proposed new procedure is termed the direct amplitude-based (DAB) approach. The major advantage of the proposed DAB approach is that it is not necessary to characterize any seismic sources. Moreover, if a "site-specific" and "event- specific" ground-motion attenuation model is available, a more accurate site-specific PSHA could be performed. Also, a generic analytical solution for the proposed procedure has been derived to avoid the need for a lengthy integration process. Using the proposed approach, peak ground velocities have been computed at different return periods, to form a seismic hazard curve, citing Hong Kong as a case study.
0037-1106
392-403
Tsang, Hing-Ho
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Chandler, Adrian M.
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Tsang, Hing-Ho
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Chandler, Adrian M.
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Tsang, Hing-Ho and Chandler, Adrian M. (2006) Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessment: direct amplitude-based approach. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 96 (2), 392-403. (doi:10.1785/0120050027).

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Conventional probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment (PSHA) is difficult to apply in regions lacking sufficient information concerning geological setting, active faults, and so forth. Also, for a site-specific PSHA, site effects arising from both crustal rock and overlying soil sediments are generally not assessed rigorously. This is of particular importance for those metropolitan cities having a significant proportion of reclaimed land, because the site-to-site variability of such site effects can be very large. The objective of this article is to demonstrate an alternative procedure for assessing seismic hazard, developed from the conventional source-based Cornell-McGuire PSHA approach, based on considering an infinite number of sources. The proposed new procedure is termed the direct amplitude-based (DAB) approach. The major advantage of the proposed DAB approach is that it is not necessary to characterize any seismic sources. Moreover, if a "site-specific" and "event- specific" ground-motion attenuation model is available, a more accurate site-specific PSHA could be performed. Also, a generic analytical solution for the proposed procedure has been derived to avoid the need for a lengthy integration process. Using the proposed approach, peak ground velocities have been computed at different return periods, to form a seismic hazard curve, citing Hong Kong as a case study.

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Published date: April 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 53120
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/53120
ISSN: 0037-1106
PURE UUID: 6a42199b-40eb-40ec-97b6-76fb4d2def45

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Date deposited: 18 Jul 2008
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 10:40

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Author: Hing-Ho Tsang
Author: Adrian M. Chandler

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