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Ground‐motion prediction from tremor
Author(s) -
Baltay Annemarie S.,
Beroza Gregory C.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1002/2013gl058506
Subject(s) - attenuation , amplitude , subduction , ground motion , geology , peak ground acceleration , seismology , geodesy , slip (aerodynamics) , strong ground motion , episodic tremor and slip , seismic hazard , acceleration , motion (physics) , physics , tectonics , optics , classical mechanics , thermodynamics
The widespread occurrence of tremor, coupled with its frequency content and location, provides an exceptional opportunity to test and improve strong ground‐motion attenuation relations for subduction zones. We characterize the amplitude of thousands of individual 5 min tremor events in Cascadia during three episodic tremor and slip events to constrain the distance decay of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and peak ground velocity (PGV). We determine the anelastic attenuation parameter for ground‐motion prediction equations (GMPEs) to a distance of 150 km, which is sufficient to place important constraints on ground‐motion decay. Tremor PGA and PGV show a distance decay that is similar to subduction‐zone‐specific GMPEs developed from both data and simulations; however, the massive amount of data present in the tremor observations should allow us to refine distance‐amplitude attenuation relationships for use in hazard maps, and to search for regional variations and intrasubduction zone differences in ground‐motion attenuation.