Objective
The tectonically unique and populated South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) has been the location of numerous large destructive earthquakes in the past. Its capability to produce earthquakes that may exceed magnitude 7.0 is a constant threat to lifelines, such as pipelines, electric transmission systems, dams and bridges, in the region. In terms of earthquake safety the spatial variability of earthquake ground motions, although often neglected in design considerations, is of particular importance to such extended structures because it can have dramatic effects on their earthquake response and cause damage. In order to reliably estimate such effects, spatial variability models must be developed from data recorded on a dense seismograph array in the region.
For that reason it is proposed to establish the ICEARRAY network, a new small-aperture strong motion array of broadband, and wide dynamic-range accelerographs in the SISZ. The regional spatial variability models developed from data recorded on the array will enable the first reliable assessment of such effects on lifeline structures from large scenario earthquakes in the SISZ. For the comprehensive near-fault and far-field simulation of strong motions, earthquake sources are represented in terms of the Specific Barr ier Model (SBM), which provides the most physically realistic, yet parsimonious, description of fault rupture.
The spatial variability models, along with the novel development of the SBM in the context of a hybrid simulation technique will thus produce physically realistic and self-consistent, broadband simulations of spatially variable strong ground motions. The developed models and techniques will be easily transferable to application in other regions in Europe due to the quantitative regional comparison of earthquake source scaling and medium characteristics made possible with the comprehensive approach taken in this study, which forms a new bridge between seismology and lifeline earthquake engineering.
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-12
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IRG - Marie Curie actions-International re-integration grants
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REYKJAVIK
Iceland
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