A Review of GMPEs that Have Been Proposed for Use in South-eastern Australia by Comparison with MMI Data

Yuxiang Tang; Nelson Lam; Hing-Ho Tsang

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A Review of GMPEs that Have Been Proposed for Use in South-eastern Australia by Comparison with MMI Data

Yuxiang Tang, Nelson Lam, Hing-Ho Tsang

Australian Earthquake Engineering Society | Published : 2018

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Abstract

Several ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) have been adopted for use in Australia by Geoscience Australia (GA) as presented in its publication known as NSHA 2018. Five such adopted GMPEs have been evaluated with three developed locally and two “third party” GMPEs that were taken from external sources. GMPEs codenamed A12 and SGC09 in NSHA 2018 have been included in this evaluation study. The peak ground velocity values so predicted by these GMPEs have been used to infer Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) values for comparison with data recorded from the historical earthquake events. It is shown that ground motion intensities of some historical earthquakes (that were within 100 km from..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The support of the Commonwealth of Australia through the Cooperative Research Centre program is acknowledged. Financial support from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) to the first author Yuxiang Tang is also sincerely acknowledged.