Overview and Introduction to Development of Non-Ergodic Earthquake Ground-Motion Models
Abstract
This paper provides an overview and introduction to the development of non-ergodic ground-motion models, GMMs. It is intended for a reader who is familiar with the standard approach for developing ergodic GMMs. It starts with a brief summary of the development of ergodic GMMs and then describes different methods that are used in the development of non-ergodic GMMs with an emphasis on Gaussian Process (GP) regression, as that is currently the method preferred by most researchers contributing to this special issue. Non-ergodic modeling requires the definition of locations for the source and site characterizing the systematic source and site effects; the non-ergodic domain is divided into cells for describing the systematic path effects. Modeling the cell-specific anelastic attenuation as a GP and considerations on constraints for extrapolation of the non-ergodic GMMs are also discussed. An updated unifying notation for non-ergodic GMMs is also presented, which has been adopted by the authors of this issue.
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@article{arxiv.2111.07921,
title = {Overview and Introduction to Development of Non-Ergodic Earthquake Ground-Motion Models},
author = {Grigorios Lavrentiadis and Norman A. Abrahamson and Kuehn M. Nicolas and Yousef Bozorgnia and Christine A. Goulet and Anže Babič and Jorge Macedo and Matjaž Dolšek and Nicholas Gregor and Albert R. Kottke and Maxime Lacour and Chenying Liu and Xiaofeng Meng and Van-Bang Phung and Chih-Hsuan Sung and Melanie Walling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07921},
year = {2022}
}
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28 pages, 2 figures