Hybrid-Empirical Ground Motion Estimations for Georgia

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2016-10-01
Tsereteli, Nino
Askan Gündoğan, Ayşegül
Hamzehloo, Hossein
Ground motion prediction equations are essential for several purposes ranging from seismic design and analysis to probabilistic seismic hazard assessment. In seismically active regions without sufficiently strong ground motion data to build empirical models, hybrid models become vital. Georgia does not have sufficiently strong ground motion data to build empirical models. In this study, we have applied the host-totarget method in two regions in Georgia with different source mechanisms. According to the tectonic regime of the target areas, two different regions are chosen as host regions. One of them is in Turkey with the dominant strike-slip source mechanism, while the other is in Iran with the prevalence of reverse-mechanism events. We performed stochastic finite-fault simulations in both host and target areas and employed the hybrid-empirical method as introduced in Campbell (2003). An initial set of hybrid empirical ground motion estimates is obtained for PGA and SA at selected periods for Georgia.
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N. Tsereteli, A. Askan Gündoğan, and H. Hamzehloo, “Hybrid-Empirical Ground Motion Estimations for Georgia,” ACTA GEOPHYSICA, pp. 1225–1256, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36639.