GROUND MOTION PREDICTION MODEL FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO REMOVING SITE EFFECTS USING THE EARTHQUAKE HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIO (EHVSR)

A ground motion attenuation model (ground motion prediction equation, GMPE) for southeastern Mexico is proposed. The attenuation model was built as a function of magnitude, and distance. A number of 86 earthquakes were used with 5.0 ≤ Mw ≤ 8.2 (including the recordings of the 9/7/2017, Mw8.2 Tehuant...

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Autores: Javier F. Lermo-Samaniego, Miguel A. Jaimes, Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma, Cristian Campuzano-Sánchez, Hugo Cruz-Jiménez, José Oscar Campos-Enriquez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Redalyc-UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:56880044002
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=56880044002
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/568/56880044002/
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https://www.redalyc.org/journal/568/56880044002/movil
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias de la Tierra
Ground
site effect
Motion Prediction Equation (GMPE) for Southeast Mexico
EHVSR (Earthquake Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio)
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Sumario:A ground motion attenuation model (ground motion prediction equation, GMPE) for southeastern Mexico is proposed. The attenuation model was built as a function of magnitude, and distance. A number of 86 earthquakes were used with 5.0 ≤ Mw ≤ 8.2 (including the recordings of the 9/7/2017, Mw8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake), and distances between 52 ≤ R ≤ 618 km. They were recorded in nine stations of the Engineering Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (II-UNAM) accelerometric network installed in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz. From all recordings of each of these stations, we removed site effects, which were estimated using the average Earthquake Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio (EHVSR). This work points out the need to remove site effect in the current GMPEs, which tends to overestimate this effect.