S41C:
Seismology Contributions: Earthquake Ground Motions and Engineering Seismology I


Session ID#: 10452

Session Description:
Contributions on ground motion prediction, amplification, seismic hazards, engineering seismology, or near-surface interactions that do not naturally fall under the scope of any of the special sessions.
Primary Convener:  Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Convener:  Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Chairs:  Erin A Wirth, Yale University, New Haven, United States and Thomas L Pratt, USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Erin A Wirth, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Index Terms:

7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How Much Can the Total Aleatory Variability of Empirical Ground Motion Prediction Equations Be Reduced Using Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations? (82376)
Thomas H Jordan1, Feng Wang2, Robert W Graves3, Scott Callaghan4, Kim Bak Olsen5, Yifeng Cui6, Kevin R Milner4, Gideon Juve7, Karan Vahi7, John Yu4, Ewa Deelman7, David Gill4 and Philip J Maechling1, (1)Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)AIR-Worldwide Corporation, Boston, MA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States, (6)San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)USC Information Sciences Inst., Marina Del Rey, CA, United States
Experimental Concepts for Testing Seismic Hazard Models (70251)
Warner Marzocchi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy and Thomas H Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Hybrid broadband Ground Motion simulation based on a dynamic rupture model of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. (77738)
Percy Galvez, AECOM, Seismology department, Fort Collins, United States, Paul Somerville, AECOM, Seismology department, Los Angeles, United States, Jeff Bayless, AECOM, Seismology department, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Luis Angel Dalguer, swissnuclear, Olten, Switzerland
3-D Simulations of Megathrust Earthquakes – Application to the 2003 M8.3 Tokachi-Oki Earthquake (70371)
Erin A Wirth, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Arthur D Frankel, U.S. Geological Survey, Seattle, United States and Prof. John Emilio Vidale, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Predicting Strong Ground-Motion Seismograms for Magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquakes Using 3D Simulations with High Stress Drop Sub-Events (70312)
Arthur D Frankel1, Erin A Wirth2, William J Stephenson3, Morgan P Moschetti3 and Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman4, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (4)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
DCShake: Measuring Variations in Earthquake Ground Motions in Washington, DC (79410)
Thomas L Pratt1, J. Wright Horton Jr2, Susan Elizabeth Hough3, Jessica Munoz2, Martin C Chapman4, Guney Olgun4 and Jacob Beale4, (1)USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States, (2)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (3)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Virginia Polytech Inst & St Un, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Event terms in the response spectra prediction equation and their deviation due to stress drop variations (77040)
Hiroshi Kawase, Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan and Kenichi Nakano, HAZAMA ANDO CORP., Technical Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
From stiffness to strength in site response predictions: Formulation and validation of a hybrid hyperbolic nonlinear soil model (74731)
Domniki Asimaki, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Jian Shi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

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