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In this study, the joint deconvolution is applied to recordings of three test cases located in the cities of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Istanbul, Turkey, and Mexico City, Mexico. Each test case consists of a building equipped with sensors and a nearby borehole installation in order to investigate different cases of coupling (impedance contrasts) between the building and the soil by analyzing the wave propagation through the building-soil-layers, and hence resolving the soil–structure-interactions. The three installations considering different dynamic characteristics of buildings and soil, and thus, different building-soil couplings, are investigated. The seismic input (i.e., the part of the wave field containing only the up-going waves after removing all down-going waves) and the part of the wave field that is associated with the waves radiated back from the building are separated by using the constrained deconvolution. The energy being radiated back from the building to the soil has been estimated for the three test cases. The values obtained show that even at great depths (and therefore distances), the amount of wave field radiated back by the building to the soil is significant (e.g., for the Bishkek case, at 145 m depth, 10% of the estimated real input energy is expected to be emitted back from the building; for Istanbul at 50 m depth, the value is also 10–15% of the estimated real input energy while for Mexico City at 45 m depth, it is 25–65% of the estimated real input energy). Such results confirm the active role of buildings in shaping the wave field.
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The authors would like to thank Tobias Boxberger, Dino Bindi, Marco Pilz and Stefan Mikulla for the installation of the Self-Organizing Seismic Early Warning Information Network (SOSEWIN) in the CAIAG Institute in Bishkek, and in the B22 building in Istanbul. The authors thank Messrs. Ahmet Korkmaz and Nafiz Kafadar of KOERI, Istanbul, for their efforts in maintaining the permanent installation at the B22 building. Moreover, we thank Vila-Murià for taking care of the Jalapa network and for sharing the data set (events from 1996 onwards) with us. This research was supported by the Global Change Observatory Central Asia and the Plate Boundary Observatory Turkey of the GFZ, and the MARsite project. Kevin Fleming kindly revised our English.
Funding was provided by Cordis (MARsite, Project ID: 308417).
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Petrovic, B., Parolai, S., Pianese, G. et al. Joint deconvolution of building and downhole seismic recordings: an application to three test cases. Bull Earthquake Eng 16, 613–641 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-017-0215-6
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