The first peak ground motion attenuation relationships for North of Vietnam
Journal
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Date Issued
2011-09
Author(s)
Le Minh Nguyen
Ting-Li Lin
Bor-Shouh Huang
Chien-Hsin Chang
Win-Gee Huang
Tu Son Le
Quoc Cuong Nguyen
Van Toan Dinh
Abstract
The first attenuation relationships of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and peak ground velocity (PGV) for northern Vietnam are obtained in this study. Ground motion data are collected by a portable broadband seismic network in northern Vietnam as a part of cooperation between the Institute of Geophysics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam and Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. The database comprises a total of 330 amplitude records by 14 broadband stations from 53 shallow earthquakes, which were occurred in and around northern Vietnam in the period between 01/2006 and 12/2009. These earthquakes are of local magnitudes between 1.6 and 4.6, focal depths less than 30. km, and epicentral distances less than 500. km. The new attenuation relationships for PGA and PGV are: log10(PGA)=-0.987+0.7521ML-log10(R)-0.00475R, log10(PGV)=-3.244+0.9008ML-log10(R)-0.00322R, where PGA is in cm/s2, PGV is in cm/s, and R is the epicentral distance in kilometers. The site corrections are also derived in this study. These site corrections are very suitable with the station corrections for ML and imply the qualification of the resulting attenuation relationships. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Type
journal article