scholarly journals Strong-motion observations recorded in Strategic Public Buildings during the 24 August 2016 Mw 6.0 Amatrice (Central Italy) Earthquake

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Ladina ◽  
Simone Marzorati ◽  
Giancarlo Monachesi ◽  
Marco Cattaneo ◽  
Massimo Frapiccini ◽  
...  

<p>The Marche Region, in collaboration with INGV, has promoted a project to monitoring public strategic buildings with permanent accelerometer installed at the base of the structures. Public <ins cite="mailto:chiara" datetime="2016-09-27T12:50">structures</ins> play a primary role to maintain the functionality of a local community. Information about vibratory characteristics of the building and subsoil, in addition to the seismic instrumental history that describe the seismic shaking at the base of the structure are collected for each buildings. The real-time acquisition of seismic data allows to obtain accelerometric time history soon after the occurrence of an earthquake. The event of 24 August 2016 in Central Italy was an opportunity to test the functionality of this implemented system. In this work the parameters obtained from strong motion data recorded at the base of the structures were analyzed and the values obtained were inserted with some <ins cite="mailto:mnoise" datetime="2016-09-26T10:13">empirical relationships </ins>used to provide intensity microseismic values and damage indices.</p>

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilberto Saccorotti ◽  
Davide Piccinini ◽  
Carlo Giunchi

<p class="western" align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span>By extending the conventional Beam-Forming frequency-wavenumber power spectral estimate to the case of arbitrarily-shaped wavefronts, we obtained images of rupture propagation during the 2016 August 24, Mw=6.0 central Italy earthquake. Using a set of strong-motion accelerometers, we evaluate the beam power along the travel time curves associated with synthetic sources spanning a model fault surface. This allows deriving time-dependent images of the distribution of energy radiation throughout the fault plane. Results indicate bi-lateral rupture propagation toward SE and NW, in rough agreement with surface co-seismic displacement and surface damage pattern. To a first order, our results are also consistent with those obtained from full-waveform inversion of strong-motion data.</span></span></p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir K. Jain ◽  
A. D. Roshan ◽  
Siddharth Yadav ◽  
Sonam Srivastava ◽  
Prabir C. Basu

In the 1960s several hundred structural response recorders (SRR) were installed all over India. An SRR is a simple instrument consisting of six seismoscopes that provide “maximum response” during an earthquake, without providing the time history. In the past earthquakes, these SRRs have provided several hundred records but they have not been effectively utilized for hazard studies because the measurements from these instruments are considered crude. This paper compares the data obtained from SRRs with that from more modern strong-motion accelerographs (SMAs) for four earthquakes in India. It is shown through statistical analysis that the response obtained from the SRRs is comparable to that from the SMAs. A method has been presented for estimating peak ground acceleration (PGA) from SRR data. Thus, it is shown that SRRs can provide a substantial amount of PGA data for attenuation studies. Many countries may find SRRs useful because of the low costs associated with their manufacture and maintenance.


2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hernandez ◽  
M. Cocco ◽  
F. Cotton ◽  
S. Stramondo ◽  
O. Scotti ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Gloria Terenzi ◽  
Iacopo Costoli ◽  
Stefano Sorace

<p>A school building with reinforced concrete structure, seismically retrofitted in 2013 and damaged by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake, is examined in this paper. A time-history assessment analysis is initially carried out in pre-rehabilitated conditions by simulating also the presence of the clay brick masonry infill perimeter walls and partitions in the finite element model of the structure. Based on the results of this analysis, a different retrofit solution is proposed, consisting in the incorporation of dissipative braces equipped with pressurized fluid viscous dampers. The verification analyses developed in this new configuration for the main shock records of the 2016 earthquake highlight slightly damaged and easily repairable response conditions of a little number of partitions — instead of the diffused moderate-to-severe damage surveyed in the building internal and perimeter infills</p><p>— and an elastic response of structural members.</p>


2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 951-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ameri ◽  
M. Massa ◽  
D. Bindi ◽  
E. D'Alema ◽  
A. Gorini ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Avallone ◽  
Diana Latorre ◽  
Enrico Serpelloni ◽  
Adriano Cavaliere ◽  
André Herrero ◽  
...  

<p>We used High-Rate sampling Global Positioning System (HRGPS) data from 52 permanent stations to retrieve the coseismic dynamic displacements related to the 2016 August 24 <em>M<sub>w</sub></em> 6.0 Amatrice earthquake. The HRGPS position time series (named hereinafter "GPSgrams") were obtained with two different analysis strategies of the raw GPS measurements (Precise Point Positioning [PPP] and Double-Difference [DD] positioning approaches using the Gipsy-Oasis II and the TRACK (GAMIT/GLOBK) software, respectively). These GPSgrams show RMS accuracies mostly within 0.3 cm and, for each site, an agreement within 0.5 cm between the two solutions. By using cross-correlation technique, the GPSgrams are also compared to the doubly-integrated strong motion data at sites where the different instrumentations are co-located in order to recognize in the GPSgrams the seismic waves movements. The high values (mostly greater than 0.6) of the cross-correlation functions between these differently-generated waveforms (GPSgrams and the SM displacement time-histories) at the co-located sites confirm the ability of GPS in providing reliable waveforms for seismological applications.</p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia Faenza ◽  
Valentino Lauciani ◽  
Alberto Michelini

In this paper we describe the performance of the ShakeMap software package and the fully automatic procedure, based on manually revised location and magnitude, during the main event of the Amatrice sequence with special emphasis to the M6 main shock, that struck central Italy on the 24th August 2016 at 1:36:32 UTC. Our results show that the procedure we developed in the last years, with real-time data exchange among those institutions acquiring strong motion data, allows to provide a faithful description of the ground motion experienced throughout a large region in and around the epicentral  area. The prompt availability of the rupture fault model, within three hours after the earthquake occurrence, provided a better descriptions of the level of strong ground motion throughout the affected area.  Progressive addition of  station data and  manual verification of the data insures improvements in the description of the experienced ground motions.  In particular, comparison between the MCS intensity shakemaps and preliminary field macroseismic reports show favourable similarities.  Finally the overall  spatial pattern of the ground motion of the main shock is consistent with reported rupture directivity toward NW and reduced levels of ground shaking toward SW probably linked to the peculiar source effects of the earthquake.


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