We have been trying to make a recipe for predicting ground motions from future large earthquakes. To do that the most important factors are the source characterizations for complex rupture processes and the Green’s function estimations for realistic geological structures. We attempt to formulate the source characterizations based on recent results of the waveform source inversion. There are two...

We examine the long-period near-source ground motions from simulations of M 7.4 events on a strike-slip fault using kinematic ruptures with rupture speeds that range from subshear speeds through intersonic speeds to supersonic speeds. The strong along-strike shear-wave directivity present in scenarios with subshear rupture speeds disappears in the scenarios with ruptures propagating faster than...

and Applied Analysis 3 island of Taiwan. In this study, the chosen Kaohsiung Luchu science park is one of the major parks located in the southern part of Taiwan. This park has a total area of 571 hectares, which started construction in the year of 2001 and was completed in 2010. Various hightech industries, such as integrated circuits, precision machines, optoelectronic components, computer per...

Abstract—This paper presents a numerical investigation on the seismic performance of a benchmark bridge with different optimal isolation systems under near fault ground motion. Usually, very large displacements make seismic isolation an unfeasible solution due to boundary conditions, especially in case of existing bridges or high risk seismic regions. Hence, near-fault ground motions are most l...

Response spectral matching is a process in which a real recorded earthquake ground motion is modified such that its response spectrum matches a desired target spectrum across a range of periods. Spectral matching algorithms aim to minimise artificial adjustments introduced to the seed, such that original non-stationary characteristics, such as velocity pulses commonly observed in ground motions...

The stochastic method of simulating ground motions from finite faults is validated against strong-motion data from the M 6.7 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake. The finite-fault plane is subdivided into elements, each element is assigned a stochastic o92 spectrum, and the delayed contributions from all subfaults are summed in the time domain. Simulated horizontal acceleration time historie...

The Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 is the most destructive earthquake in China in the past 30 years in terms of property damage and human losses. In order to understand the earthquake process and the geo-morphological factors affecting the seismic hazard, we simulated the strong ground motion caused by the earthquake, incorporating three-dimensional (3D) earth structure, finite-fault ruptur...

This article presents equations for the estimation of vertical strong ground motions caused by shallow crustal earthquakes with magnitudes Mw ≥ 5 and distance to the surface projection of the fault less than 100 km. These equations were derived by weighted regression analysis, used to remove observed magnitude-dependent variance, on a set of 595 strong-motion records recorded in Europe and the ...