Strong ground-motion relations for Mexican interplate earthquakes

Arroyo, Danny; García, David Álvarez; Ordaz, Mario; Mora, Mauricio Alexander; Singh, S. K.

doi:10.1007/s10950-010-9200-0

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“…The PGA amplitudes and their hypocentral distances (R h ) from this study are presented in Information reported by Arroyo et al (2010). Fig.…”

Section: Seismic Risk and Hazardmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In Table 7 two earthquake catalogs are shown; the first is a list of 40 earthquakes (M w between 5.0-8.0) used recently to estimate an attenuation relation by Arroyo et al (2010) for the subduction zone, and the second is a compilation of the historical seismicity in MVB (Ms between 4-7.8), as reported by Suter et al (1996), Singh et al (1984), and Zúñiga et al (2003). The low density of seismic instrumentation in the MVB (most of the stations are south of the MVB) has not allowed a study of this type on the shallow seismicity.…”

Section: Seismic Risk and Hazardmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Seismicity at the northeast edge of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) and activation of an undocumented fault: the Peñamiller earthquake sequence of 2010–2011, Querétaro, Mexico

Clemente-Chavez

Figueroa-Soto²,

Zúñiga³

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The town of Peñamiller in the state of Querétaro, Mexico, is located at the northeast border of the seismogenic zone known as the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB), which transects the central part of Mexico with an east–west orientation. In the vicinity of this town, a sequence of small earthquakes occurred during the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011. Seismicity in the continental regimen of central Mexico is not too frequent; however, it is known that there are precedents of large earthquakes (Mw magnitude greater than 6.0) occurring in this zone. Three large earthquakes have occurred in the past 100 yr: the 19 November 1912 (MS = 7.0), the 3 January 1920 (MS = 6.4), and the 29 June 1935 (MS = 6.9) earthquakes. Prior to the instrumental period, the earthquake of 11 February 1875, which took place near the city of Guadalajara, caused widespread damage. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the available seismic information of this region. This will help advance our understanding of the tectonic situation of the central Mexico MVB region. Twenty-four shallow earthquakes of the Peñamiller seismic sequence of 2011 were recorded by a temporary accelerograph network installed by the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ). The data were analyzed in order to determine the source locations and to estimate the source parameters. The study was carried out through an inversion process and by spectral analysis. The results show that the largest earthquake occurred on 8 February 2011 at 19:53:48.6 UTC, had a moment magnitude Mw = 3.5, and was located at latitude 21.039° and longitude −99.752°, at a depth of 5.6 km. This location is less than 7 km away in a south-east direction from downtown Peñamiller. The focal mechanisms are mostly normal faults with small lateral components. These focal mechanisms are consistent with the extensional regimen of the southern extension of the Basin and Range (BR) province. The source area of the largest event was estimated to have a radius of 0.5 km, which corresponds to a normal fault with azimuth of 174° and an almost pure dip slip. Peak ground acceleration (PGA) was close to 100 cm s−2 in the horizontal direction. Shallow earthquakes induced by crustal faulting present a potential seismic risk and hazard within the MVB, considering the population growth. Thus, the necessity to enrich seismic information in this zone is very important since the risk at most urban sites in the region might even be greater than that posed by subduction earthquakes.

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“…The PGA amplitudes and their hypocentral distances (R h ) from this study are presented in Information reported by Arroyo et al (2010). Fig.…”

Section: Seismic Risk and Hazardmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Seismic Risk and Hazardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seismicity at the northeast edge of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) and activation of an undocumented fault: the Peñamiller earthquake sequence of 2010–2011, Querétaro, Mexico

Clemente-Chavez

Figueroa-Soto²,

Zúñiga³

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…In addition, it lists the model recently developed by N. A. Abrahamson and coworkers for BC Hydro (2010) using worldwide data and the global model of Boore (2003, 2008), which updated earlier studies by Crouse (1991) and Youngs et al (1997), the latter of which is also included in Table 1 because it is still widely used. Table 2 also includes regional models for the New Zealand (McVerry et al, 2006), Mexican (García et al, 2005;Arroyo et al, 2010), Japanese Kanno et al, 2006), Indo-Burmese (Gupta, 2010), and Taiwanese (Lin and Lee, 2008) subduction zones. The Takahashi et al (2004) model differs only slightly from the Zhao et al (2006) model, so the former model is not listed.…”

Section: Overview Of Global and Overseas Regionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only Atkinson and Boore (2003) derived separate sets of coefficients for these two earthquake types; Kanno et al (2006) provided separate coefficients for interface and intraslab events, but they also merged the former with crustal earthquakes. GMPEs specific to intraslab earthquakes have been developed by García et al (2005) and Gupta (2010), and equations for interface earthquakes applicable to sites in the forearc region (i.e., the region between the subduction trench and volcanic front) have been derived by Arroyo et al (2010).…”

Section: Overview Of Global and Overseas Regionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of overseas models, the selected GMPEs include the global models of Youngs et al (1997, Boore (2003, hereafter AB2003) (2010, hereafter BC2010), as well as the regional models of García et al (2005, McVerry et al (2006, Zhao et al (2006, Lin andLee (2008, hereafter LL2008) and Arroyo et al (2010. Although the Y1997 and AB2003 models can be considered as being superseded by the BC2010 global model, the database used to derive the latter is mainly controlled by data from Japan and Taiwan, so all three models have been included in view of the varying importance of South and Central American data in their underlying databases.…”

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An Evaluation of the Applicability of Current Ground-Motion Models to the South and Central American Subduction Zones

Arango

Strasser

Bommer

et al. 2012

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

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The applicability of existing ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for subduction-zone earthquakes is an important issue to address in the assessment of the seismic hazard affecting the Peru-Chile and Central American regions. Few predictive equations exist that are derived from local data, and these do not generally meet the quality criteria required for use in modern seismic hazard analyses. This paper investigates the applicability of a set of global and regional subduction ground-motion models to the Peru-Chile and Central American subduction zones, distinguishing between interface and intraslab events, in light of recently compiled ground-motion data from these regions. Strong-motion recordings and associated metadata compiled by Arango, Strasser, Bommer, Boroschek, et al. (2011) and Arango, Strasser, Bommer, Hernandez, et al. (2011) have been used to assess the performance of the candidate equations following the maximum-likelihood approach of Scherbaum et al. (2004) and its extension to normalized intraevent and interevent residual distributions developed by Stafford et al. (2008). The results of this study are discussed in terms of the transportability of GMPEs for subduction-zone environments from one region to another, with a view to providing guidance for developing groundmotion logic trees for seismic hazard analysis in these regions.

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Epistemic Uncertainty in PSHA and Seismic Hazard Characterization Using the Logic Tree Approach: Part I, Developing the Framework

Gurjar

Basu²

2022

Pure Appl. Geophys.

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Strong ground-motion relations for Mexican interplate earthquakes

Cited by 55 publications

References 32 publications

Seismicity at the northeast edge of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) and activation of an undocumented fault: the Peñamiller earthquake sequence of 2010–2011, Querétaro, Mexico

Seismicity at the northeast edge of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) and activation of an undocumented fault: the Peñamiller earthquake sequence of 2010–2011, Querétaro, Mexico

An Evaluation of the Applicability of Current Ground-Motion Models to the South and Central American Subduction Zones

Epistemic Uncertainty in PSHA and Seismic Hazard Characterization Using the Logic Tree Approach: Part I, Developing the Framework

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