Updated predictive equations for broadband (0.01–10 s) horizontal response spectra and peak ground motions, based on a global dataset of digital acceleration …

C Cauzzi, E Faccioli, M Vanini, A Bianchini - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2015 - Springer
Presented herein is an updated model for empirical prediction of 5%-damped elastic
response spectra in the period range 0–10 s, peak ground acceleration and velocity, based …

New code site classification, amplification factors and normalized response spectra based on a worldwide ground-motion database

K Pitilakis, E Riga, A Anastasiadis - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2013 - Springer
A global dataset of more than 3,000 ground motion records from 536 sites from Greece, Italy,
Turkey, USA and Japan is compiled and used to propose code-oriented elastic acceleration …

Ground motion prediction equations for the Chilean subduction zone

B Idini, F Rojas, S Ruiz, C Pastén - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2017 - Springer
The Chilean subduction zone is one of the most active in the world. Six events of magnitude
greater than M_w= 7.5 M w= 7.5 have occurred in the last 10 years, including the 2010 …

Site condition evaluation using horizontal-to-vertical response spectral ratios of earthquakes in the NGA-West 2 and Japanese databases

H Ghofrani, GM Atkinson - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
We evaluate the usefulness of the horizontal-to-vertical (H/V) response spectral ratio as a
parameter to describe site response. In particular we compare its effectiveness with that of …

Towards the revision of EC8: proposal for an alternative site classification scheme and associated intensity dependent spectral amplification factors

K Pitilakis, E Riga, A Anastasiadis, S Fotopoulou… - Soil dynamics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents an alternative site classification scheme and associated intensity
dependent spectral amplification factors, aiming to contribute to the ongoing revision of …

A statistical representation and frequency-domain window-rejection algorithm for single-station HVSR measurements

BR Cox, T Cheng, JP Vantassel… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) of ambient noise measurement is commonly
used to estimate a site's resonance frequency (). For sites with a strong impedance contrast …

A Compendious Review on the Determination of Fundamental Site Period: Methods and Importance

A Güllü - Geotechnics, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is now well-known that ground motion characteristics can be influenced significantly by
local site characteristics. In general, soil characteristics were classified by considering the …

Overview of local site effects and seismic microzonation mapping in Metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

S Molnar, J Assaf, A Sirohey, SR Adhikari - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
A multi-year seismic microzonation project to map local variations of site response across
Metropolitan (Metro) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is currently underway. This …

A Comparison of VS30 and Site Period as Site‐Effect Parameters in Response Spectral Ground‐Motion Prediction Equations

JX Zhao, H Xu - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
VS 30, the shear‐wave travel time averaged soil shear‐wave velocity of the top 30 m, has
been used to represent site effects in many recent ground‐motion prediction equations …

Site parameters applied in NGA-Sub database

SK Ahdi, DY Kwak, TD Ancheta… - Earthquake …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
NGA-Sub data resources are organized into a relational database. We describe the Site
table within that database structure, which contains metadata for 6502 stations that have …