TY - JOUR
T1 - High-frequency maximum observable shaking map of Italy from fault sources
AU - Zonno, Gaetano
AU - Basili, Roberto
AU - Meroni, Fabrizio
AU - Musacchio, Gemma
AU - Mai, Paul Martin
AU - Valensise, Gianluca
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors thank Salvatore Barba for fruitful discussions in setting up the project. RB and GV thank the other members of the DISS Working Group for their continuous dedication in keeping the DISS updated. Suggestions by Dario Slejko, Angela Sarao, and an anonymous reviewer were very helpful in improving the paper. This study benefited from funding by the Italian Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC), in the framework of the 2007-2009 Agreement with Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-DPC-INGV, Project S1.
PY - 2012/3/17
Y1 - 2012/3/17
N2 - We present a strategy for obtaining fault-based maximum observable shaking (MOS) maps, which represent an innovative concept for assessing deterministic seismic ground motion at a regional scale. Our approach uses the fault sources supplied for Italy by the Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources, and particularly by its composite seismogenic sources (CSS), a spatially continuous simplified 3-D representation of a fault system. For each CSS, we consider the associated Typical Fault, i. e., the portion of the corresponding CSS that can generate the maximum credible earthquake. We then compute the high-frequency (1-50 Hz) ground shaking for a rupture model derived from its associated maximum credible earthquake. As the Typical Fault floats within its CSS to occupy all possible positions of the rupture, the high-frequency shaking is updated in the area surrounding the fault, and the maximum from that scenario is extracted and displayed on a map. The final high-frequency MOS map of Italy is then obtained by merging 8,859 individual scenario-simulations, from which the ground shaking parameters have been extracted. To explore the internal consistency of our calculations and validate the results of the procedure we compare our results (1) with predictions based on the Next Generation Attenuation ground-motion equations for an earthquake of M w 7.1, (2) with the predictions of the official Italian seismic hazard map, and (3) with macroseismic intensities included in the DBMI04 Italian database. We then examine the uncertainties and analyse the variability of ground motion for different fault geometries and slip distributions. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
AB - We present a strategy for obtaining fault-based maximum observable shaking (MOS) maps, which represent an innovative concept for assessing deterministic seismic ground motion at a regional scale. Our approach uses the fault sources supplied for Italy by the Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources, and particularly by its composite seismogenic sources (CSS), a spatially continuous simplified 3-D representation of a fault system. For each CSS, we consider the associated Typical Fault, i. e., the portion of the corresponding CSS that can generate the maximum credible earthquake. We then compute the high-frequency (1-50 Hz) ground shaking for a rupture model derived from its associated maximum credible earthquake. As the Typical Fault floats within its CSS to occupy all possible positions of the rupture, the high-frequency shaking is updated in the area surrounding the fault, and the maximum from that scenario is extracted and displayed on a map. The final high-frequency MOS map of Italy is then obtained by merging 8,859 individual scenario-simulations, from which the ground shaking parameters have been extracted. To explore the internal consistency of our calculations and validate the results of the procedure we compare our results (1) with predictions based on the Next Generation Attenuation ground-motion equations for an earthquake of M w 7.1, (2) with the predictions of the official Italian seismic hazard map, and (3) with macroseismic intensities included in the DBMI04 Italian database. We then examine the uncertainties and analyse the variability of ground motion for different fault geometries and slip distributions. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/594293
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10518-012-9346-y
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864299275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10518-012-9346-y
DO - 10.1007/s10518-012-9346-y
M3 - Article
SN - 1570-761X
VL - 10
SP - 1075
EP - 1107
JO - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
JF - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
IS - 4
ER -