Estimation of seismic spectral acceleration in Peninsular India

Kanth, Raghu STG and Iyengar, RN (2007) Estimation of seismic spectral acceleration in Peninsular India. In: Journal of Earth System Science, 116 (3). pp. 199-214.

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Abstract

Peninsular India (PI), which lies south of $24^oN$ latitude, has experienced several devastating earthquakes in the past. However, very few strong motion records are available for developing attenuation relations for ground acceleration, required by engineers to arrive at rational design response spectra for construction sites and cities in PI. Based on a well-known seismological model, the present paper statistically simulates ground motion in PI to arrive at an empirical relation for estimating 5% damped response spectra, as a function of magnitude and source to site distance, covering bedrock and soil conditions. The standard error in the proposed relationship is reported as a function of the frequency, for further use of the results in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Earth System Science
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences. Formerly this journal was known as Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences).
Keywords:	Attenuation;response spectra;Peninsular India;site coefficients.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:48
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/15487

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