In this work, a correlation study between well-known seismic parameters and damage indices is presented. The correlation analysis is first performed on a set of natural seismic signals and afterwards on a set of artificial accelerograms generated from natural records. The artificial seismic signals are generated by a combination of techniques; the Hilbert-Huang transform and an optimization alg...

This paper proposes a method for quantitative integration of seismic (elastic) anisotropy attributes with reservoir performance data as an aid in characterization of systems of natural fractures in hydrocarbon reservoirs. This method is demonstrated through application to history matching of reservoir performance using synthetic test cases. Discrete Feature Network (DFN) modeling (Dershowitz et...

Significant anomalous changes in the ultra low frequency range (approximately 0.01 Hz) were observed in both geoelectric and geomagnetic fields before the major volcano-seismic activity in the Izu Island region, Japan. The spectral intensity of the geoelectric potential difference between some electrodes on Niijima Island and the third principal component of geomagnetic field variations at an a...

[1] The subducting Pacific plate acts an efficient waveguide for high-frequency signals and often produces anomalously large intensity on the eastern seaboard of northern Japan during deep earthquakes. The waveform records in the region of high intensity show a low-frequency (f < 0.25 Hz) onset for both P and S waves, followed by large, highfrequency (f > 2 Hz) later arrivals with a long coda. ...

A key issue in seismic risk analysis within the context of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering is the evaluation of the expected seismic damage of structures under a specific earthquake ground motion. The assessment of the seismic performance strongly depends on the choice of the seismic Intensity Measure (IM), which quantifies the characteristics of a ground motion that are important to t...

National (or regional) seismic hazard maps, determined from probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, quantify the expected intensity of shaking in a region(s) over the course of one or more desired time interval(s). Building codes use these maps to define the lateral force levels for the design of new and the retrofit of existing structures. In the past, the maps depicted the shaking intensity me...

Infills can highly influence the seismic response of a Reinforced Concrete (RC) building: generally speaking, their presence leads to an increase in global stiffness and strength, but their brittle behavior can result in an increase of displacement demand if a certain threshold of seismic intensity is overcome. Moreover, presence of infills often leads to a change in the collapse mechanism comp...