Browsing by Author "Crempien de la Carrera, Jorge Gustavo Federico"

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    Correlations of spectral accelerations in the Chilean subduction zone
    (2020) Candia, G.; Poulos Campbell, Alan John; Llera Martin, Juan Carlos de la; Crempien de la Carrera, Jorge Gustavo Federico; Macedo, J.
    The correlation between spectral accelerations is key in the construction of conditional mean spectra, the computation of vector-valued seismic hazard, and the assessment of seismic risk of spatially distributed systems, among other applications. Spectral correlations are highly dependent on the earthquake database used, and thus, region-specific correlation models have been developed mainly for earthquakes in western United States, Europe, Middle East, and Japan. Correlation models based on global data sets for crustal and subduction zones have also become available, but there is no consensus about their applicability on a specific region. This study proposes a new correlation model for 5% damped spectral accelerations and peak ground velocity in the Chilean subduction zone. The correlations obtained were generally higher than those observed from shallow crustal earthquakes and subduction zones such as Japan and Taiwan. The study provides two illustrative applications of the correlation model: (1) computation of conditional spectra for a firm soil site located in Santiago, Chile and (2) computation of bivariate hazard for spectral accelerations at two structural periods.
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    Simulation of pulse-like ground motions during the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake with a new source model using corrected empirical Green's functions
    (SEISMOLOGICAL SOC AMER, 2022) Fernández Soto, Claudio; Nozu, Atsushi; Crempien de la Carrera, Jorge Gustavo Federico; Llera Martin, Juan Carlos de la
    Pulse-like near-source ground motions were observed by the local network during the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel, Chile earthquake. Such ground motions can be quite damaging to a wide range of infrastructures. The primary objective of this study is to provide a source model that can explain such ground motions. The isolated nature of the pulses indicated that the rupture of some small isolated region on the fault contributed to the generation of the pulse. Therefore, we considered such regions and termed them as Strong Motion Pulse Generation Areas (SPGAs). We used the corrected empirical Green's function (EGF) method because this method has been successfully applied to near-source pulse-like ground motions in previous studies. We simulated synthetic waveforms using the frequency dependent quality factor Q = 239f0:71 and empirical site amplification factors, which we obtained by applying a generalized inversion technique to local weakmotion data. The result indicated that the observed ground motions from the Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake can readily be explained with a source model that involves two SPGAs with dimensions of several kilometers in spite of the huge rupture zone of the earthquake. The source model can reproduce velocity waveforms, acceleration Fourier amplitude spectra (FAS) and pseudoacceleration response spectra. It also reproduces the duration of strong ground motions quite accurately. No significant bias was found with respect to distance and frequency. In conclusion, the corrected EGF method is a very efficient tool to simulate near-source ground motions of a subduction earthquake when it is combined with higher stress-drop subevents whose sizes are adjusted to the observed pulse widths.