Earthquake ground motions induced by a scenario event are spatially (partially) correlated and (partially) coherent. Simulated ground motion records can be used to carry out nonlinear inelastic time history analysis for a portfolio of buildings to estimate the seismic loss, which is advantageous as there is no need to develop and apply empirical ground motion prediction equations and the ductil...

during the past decades, attempts have been made to develop an early warning system for coming destructive earthquakes a few seconds before the ongoing ground motion. in this paper, a practical method for the early warning of earthquakes in south iran is presented. this region is selected for study because it has high potential for generating earthquakes and has a more complete strong ground mo...

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis is a technique for estimating the annual rate of exceedance of a specified ground motion at a site due to the known and suspected earthquake sources. A Monte-Carlo approach is utilized to estimate the seismic hazard at a site. This method uses numerous resampling of an earthquake catalog to construct synthetic catalogs to evaluate the ground motion hazard a...

In India, the frequency of occurrence of earthquakes is more, especially in Himalaya, northeast India and Gujarat region. Therefore it becomes essential to estimate the seismic inputs for such earthquakes to reduce the structural damage. From engineering point of view, the most sought-after data is the strong motion accelerograms (SMA), recorded in the places where earthquake has occurred. The ...

Introduction to Seismic Hazard Analysis Representations of Seismic Hazard Data completeness Recurrence Relation Gutenberg-Richter recurrence law Mmax Estimation Predictive relationships Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Applicability of DSHA and PSHA Summary of uncertainties Uncertainty in the Hypocentral Distance Regional Recurrence Deaggregation Unifo...

Paper presents the generation and implementation of various types of earthquake sources in a 2D finite difference grid. The procedure used for computing dislocations on the fault plane is identical to both well known kinematic and dynamic models, since it was calculated by solving the equation of motion taking into account the stress drop and the shear strength of the fault. This scheme is supe...

This paper aims to investigate the effects of motion duration on the structural seismic demands, seeking potential correlations between motion durations and structural responses at several seismic intensity levels. Three seismic intensity levels with 100years, 475years, and 2475years earthquake return periods (RPs) are first considered for correlation computations. Spectrally matched ground mot...

The performance of various systems of the Next Linear Collider (NLC) have been studied in terms of ground motion using recently developed models. In particular, the performance of the beam delivery system is discussed. Plans to evaluate the operation of the main linac beam-based alignment and feedback systems are also outlined.