Open AccessAccelerometric radiation simulation for the September 26, 1997 Umbria-Marche (Central Italy) main shocks
Author(s) -
Antonio Emolo,
Aldo Zollo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2037-416X
pISSN - 1593-5213
DOI - 10.4401/ag-3579
Subject(s) - geology , seismology , event (particle physics) , fault (geology) , ground motion , geodesy , interval (graph theory) , radiation , physics , mathematics , optics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics
We applied a hybrid stochastic-deterministic method to simulate the strong ground motion characteristics associated with the September 26, 1997 Umbria-Marche main shocks. One hundred different rupture processes on previously inferred fault planes were simulated. The maps of computed PGA (mean values from 100 simulations) show a SE alignment for the 00:33 event and a NW alignment for the 09:40 event, in accordance with the macroseismic data. Moreover, we found a good agreement between the predicted 1ó interval for the PGA values and the data recorded at several accelerometric stations. As a further test, we computed the response spectra at the station Cerreto di Spoleto and found a satisfactory agreement with the synthetic results