Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in the NW Iran

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MOTAGHI KHALIL; Zarunizadeh Zahra; GHODS ABDOLREZA

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Journal: IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS Year:2016 | Volume:10 | Issue:4 Page(s): 128-141

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Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in the NW Iran

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MOTAGHI KHALIL | Zarunizadeh Zahra | GHODS ABDOLREZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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seismic attenuation relationQ1

quality factorQ1

NW IranQ1

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Estimation of seismic wave attenuation due to anelasticity and geometrical spreading has attracted major interests among earthquake engineering community in recent decades. The choice of ground-motion model has a significant impact on hazard estimates in an active seismic zone such as the NW Iran. Estimation of ground motion for a typical frequency range of 0. 5– 10 Hz is required for the proper design of earthquake resistant structures and facilities and is considered as input for engineering stochastic ground motion relationships. For seismological purposes, appropriate attenuation models make it possible to calculate more accurately the source parameters such as magnitude and seismic moment. The NW Iran has experienced very few large events during the operation of the accelerometer network of the Building and Housing Research Center (BHRC). The BHRC network has been operating since 1973 but has recorded ground acceleration for few events in the study area, because of the low seismicity rate. The availability of the abundant weak-motion waveform data from the shortperiod local seismograph network of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran (IGUT) provides an opportunity to derive a new and more reliable ground-motion relationship for small events to complement those of strong-motion results. In this study, we analysed 3514 records of 943 small and moderate events that were recorded by 8 permanent stations of Tabriz network (belonging to the IGUT) and 16 temporary stations of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) to prepare a dataset including week ground-motion spectral amplitudes for different magnitudes and hypocentral distances. We graphically found the distance at which the nature of geometrical spreading attenuation changes significantly using a locally weighted scatter-plot smoothing called robust LOWESS. A bilinear function with a hinge at distance of about 70 km describes the geometric spreading attenuation with distance. Geometrical spreading and intrinsic attenuation coefficients were calculated using nonlinear regression in different frequencies and an average value of b1   1. 1 0. 28was found as geometrical spreading coefficient for distance range of 10– 70 km. This value is consistent with geometrical spreading in a layered Earth. The average geometrical spreading coefficient of 2 b   0. 44  0. 27 was found for the frequency range 0. 79– 5 Hz and the distance range of 70– 200 km. This value is smaller than the values reported for other regions in the world (e. g. +0. 09 for Central Alborz: Motaghi and Ghods, 2012; +0. 2 for North Iran: Motazedian, 2006; +0. 2 for SE Canada and the NE United States: Atkinson, 2004; +0. 1 for SE Australia: Allen et al., 2007) and indicates that the velocity contrast in the Moho discontinuity is smaller than that in the other regions. The low-velocity uppermost mantle in NW Iran was manifested by different types of tomographic results obtained for the region. The geometrical spreading coefficient 2 b does not change before and after 70 km distance for frequencies ≥ 5 Hz. Thus, the attenuation relationship in this frequency range changed from bilinear to linear function. Using anelastic attenuation coefficients calculated at different frequencies, the shear-wave quality factor, Q, obtained equal to Q 96 f 0. 84 for frequencies greater than 1. 5 Hz. In fact, the Q values show a U-shaped behavior in all of the frequency ranges and the function that describes it is defined as   2   logQ  1. 39 log f  0. 63 log f  2. 26.

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MOTAGHI, KHALIL, Zarunizadeh, Zahra, & GHODS, ABDOLREZA. (2016). Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in the NW Iran. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, 10(4 ), 128-141. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/133694/en

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MOTAGHI KHALIL, Zarunizadeh Zahra, GHODS ABDOLREZA. Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in the NW Iran. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS[Internet]. 2016;10(4 ):128-141. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/133694/en

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KHALIL MOTAGHI, Zahra Zarunizadeh, and ABDOLREZA GHODS, “Attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in the NW Iran,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, vol. 10, no. 4 , pp. 128–141, 2016, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/133694/en

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