Huang, C;
Galasso, C;
(2019)
Ground-motion intensity measure correlations observed in Italian strong-motion records.
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
, 48
(15)
pp. 1634-1660.
10.1002/eqe.3216.
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Abstract
Ground-motion models (GMMs) are widely used in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) to estimate the probability distributions of earthquake-induced ground-motion intensity measures (IMs) at a site, given an earthquake of a certain magnitude occurring at a nearby location. Accounting for spatial and cross-IM correlations in earthquake-induced ground motions has important implications on probabilistic seismic hazard and loss estimates. This study first develops a new Italian GMM with spatial correlation for 31 amplitude-related IMs, including peak ground acceleration (PGA), peak ground velocity (PGV) and 5% damped elastic pseudospectral accelerations (PSAs) at 29 periods ranging from 0.01 s to 4 s. The model estimation is performed through a recently-developed one-stage non-linear regression algorithm proposed by the authors, known as the Scoring estimation approach. In fact, current state-of-practice approaches estimate spatial correlation separately from the GMM estimation, resulting in inconsistent and statistically inefficient estimators of inter- and intraevent variances and parameters in the spatial correlation model. We test whether this affects the subsequent cross-IM correlation analysis. To this aim, based on the newly-developed GMM, the empirical correlation coefficients from inter- and intraevent residuals are investigated. Finally, a set of analytical correlation models between the selected IMs are proposed. This is of special interest as several correlation models between different IMs have been calibrated and validated based on advanced GMMs and global datasets, lacking earthquakes in extensional regions; however, modeling the correlation between different IM types has not been adequately addressed by current, state-of-the-art GMMs and recent ground-motion records for Italy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ground-motion intensity measure correlations observed in Italian strong-motion records |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/eqe.3216 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3216 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | intensity measure correlation, ground-motion model, spatial correlation, Italy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10083003 |
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