scholarly journals Analysis of H/V Ratio Curve to Estimate Seismic Hazard Vulnerability in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhammad Randy Caesario Harsuko ◽  
Zulfakriza Z. ◽  
Andri Dian Nugraha ◽  
Muzli Muzli ◽  
David Prambudi Sahara ◽  
...  

In 2018, Lombok Island was hit by a series of destructive earthquakes. According to Indonesian Meteo- rological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency data, about 1,973 felt earthquakes (M > 3) which shaken Lombok were recorded during August 2018 with three earthquakes with the largest magnitude of 6.9 Mw, 6.8 Mw, and 6.2 Mw. National Board for Disaster Management reported about 555 deaths, 1,833 people injured, and 186,010 houses damaged as a result of Lombok earthquake on August 5th, 2018. A number of seismometers were placed on Lombok Island from August 3rd, 2018 to October 19th, 2018 to monitor the aftershock events. There are 17 stations that record seismicity in Lombok consisting of 10 broadband sensors and 7 short period sensors. In this study, we used the Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) method to analyze the risk of earthquake in the Lombok region. The basic concept of this method is to do a comparison between the horizontal component spectrum and the vertical component spectrum of a wave, where theoretically the particle movement of the horizontal component is greater than the particle movement of the vertical component on soft ground, whereas on the hard ground both components (horizontal and vertical) will be similar. H/V curve obtained from earthquake record- ings (Earthquake Horizontal-to-Vertical Ratio/EHVR) and H/V curve obtained from microtremor recordings (Microtremor Horizontal-to-Vertical Ratio/MHVR) shows good agreement and high correlation. Empirical correction of EMR (Earthquake-to-Microtremor Ratio) managed to decrease the difference of estimation of predominant frequency and amplification factor between EHVR and MHVR. Predominant frequency, amplification, and seismic vulnerability map agree with the geological condition of Lombok Island, where high value of amplification and seismic vulnerability was found on soft and thick ground. This study conclude that the maximum ground acceleration and the construction of the building should also considered when one wants to investigate the effect of an earthquake to the damage occurred, beside the site effects.

2014 ◽  
Vol 896 ◽  
pp. 521-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farid ◽  
Kirbani Sri Brotopuspito ◽  
Wahyudi ◽  
Sunarto ◽  
Wiwit Suryanto

North Bengkulu district has an area prone to earthquakes, because this area is very closed to the Sumatra subduction zone to the Eurasian tectonic plate. Coastal area in this region is experiencing with the very fast erosion. This is thought to have relation with earthquake-prone zones. This study aims to find the relationship between Ground Shear Strain (GSS) and rate of erosion in the coastal area of North Bengkulu. The data of coastal erosion rate was obtained by overlaying shoreline in 1947 and 2012. The GSS can be obtained by multiplying Seismic Vulnerability Index (SVI) and Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) values around the shoreline. Seismic Vulnerability Index was obtained by processing microseismic data acquired using three component in short period of seismometers. The PGA was obtained from the historical earthquake and calculated by using Fukushima-Tanaka equation. The results show that the value of GSS varies between 0.0001 to 0.0055, and the SVI values is ranging from 1.2 to 16.1. In addition, we estimated that PGA value is 92 to 120 and the rate of erosion between 3.6 up to 5.8 m/yr. GSS value for each type of coastal is 0.00046 for the fine sandy beach flat, 0.0043 for flat coastal muddy, 0.0001 for flat rocky beaches, 0.0006 for sandy beaches to rugged, 0.0003 for steep rocky lava beach, 0.0014 for steep rocky coast of for clay, 0.0011 for bertufa steep sandy beach stones, and 0.0014 for the steep rocky shore tuffaceous clay. It is found that the GSS value depends on the type of coastal. In this case, flat coastal muddy show highest effect on the GSS. Both SVI and GSS can be estimated to be a quadratic relation to the erosion rate.


Author(s):  
David M. Wittman

Galilean relativity is a useful description of nature at low speed. Galileo found that the vertical component of a projectile’s velocity evolves independently of its horizontal component. In a frame that moves horizontally along with the projectile, for example, the projectile appears to go straight up and down exactly as if it had been launched vertically. The laws of motion in one dimension are independent of any motion in the other dimensions. This leads to the idea that the laws of motion (and all other laws of physics) are equally valid in any inertial frame: the principle of relativity. This principle implies that no inertial frame can be considered “really stationary” or “really moving.” There is no absolute standard of velocity (contrast this with acceleration where Newton’s first law provides an absolute standard). We discuss some apparent counterexamples in everyday experience, and show how everyday experience can be misleading.


Author(s):  
A. Sandoli ◽  
G. P. Lignola ◽  
B. Calderoni ◽  
A. Prota

AbstractA hybrid seismic fragility model for territorial-scale seismic vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings is developed and presented in this paper. The method combines expert-judgment and mechanical approaches to derive typological fragility curves for Italian residential masonry building stock. The first classifies Italian masonry buildings in five different typological classes as function of age of construction, structural typology, and seismic behaviour and damaging of buildings observed following the most severe earthquakes occurred in Italy. The second, based on numerical analyses results conducted on building prototypes, provides all the parameters necessary for developing fragility functions. Peak-Ground Acceleration (PGA) at Ultimate Limit State attainable by each building’s class has been chosen as an Intensity Measure to represent fragility curves: three types of curve have been developed, each referred to mean, maximum and minimum value of PGAs defined for each building class. To represent the expected damage scenario for increasing earthquake intensities, a correlation between PGAs and Mercalli-Cancani-Sieber macroseismic intensity scale has been used and the corresponding fragility curves developed. Results show that the proposed building’s classes are representative of the Italian masonry building stock and that fragility curves are effective for predicting both seismic vulnerability and expected damage scenarios for seismic-prone areas. Finally, the fragility curves have been compared with empirical curves obtained through a macroseismic approach on Italian masonry buildings available in literature, underlining the differences between the methods.


2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (24) ◽  
pp. 4301-4309 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Okada ◽  
Y. Toh

SUMMARY Arthropods have hair plates that are clusters of mechanosensitive hairs, usually positioned close to joints, which function as proprioceptors for joint movement. We investigated how angular movements of the antenna of the cockroach (Periplaneta americana) are coded by antennal hair plates. A particular hair plate on the basal segment of the antenna, the scapal hair plate, can be divided into three subgroups: dorsal, lateral and medial. The dorsal group is adapted to encode the vertical component of antennal direction, while the lateral and medial groups are specialized for encoding the horizontal component. Of the three subgroups of hair sensilla, those of the lateral scapal hair plate may provide the most reliable information about the horizontal position of the antenna, irrespective of its vertical position. Extracellular recordings from representative sensilla of each scapal hair plate subgroup revealed the form of the single-unit impulses in response to hair deflection. The mechanoreceptors were characterized as typically phasic-tonic. The tonic discharge was sustained indefinitely (>20 min) as long as the hair was kept deflected. The spike frequency in the transient (dynamic) phase was both velocity- and displacement-dependent, while that in the sustained (steady) phase was displacement-dependent.


1992 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Carusi ◽  
G.B. Valsecchi

The gravitational processes affecting the dynamics of comets are reviewed. At great distances from the Sun the motion of comets is primarily affected by the vertical component of the galactic field, as well as by encounters with stars and giant molecular clouds. When comets move in the region of the planets, encounters with these can strongly affect their motion. A good fraction of all periodic comets spend some time in temporary libration about mean motion resonances with Jupiter; some comets can be captured by this planet as temporary satellites. Finally, there is a small number of objects with orbital characteristics quite different from those of all other short-period comets.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
MaoSheng Ge ◽  
Pute Wu ◽  
Delan Zhu ◽  
Daniel P. Ames

<p>An indoor experiment was conducted to analyze the movement characteristics of different sized droplets and their influence on water application rate distribution and kinetic energy distribution. Radial droplets emitted from a Nelson D3000 sprinkler nozzle under 66.3, 84.8, and 103.3 kPa were measured in terms of droplet velocity, landing angle, and droplet kinetic energy and results were compared to natural rainfall characteristics. Results indicate that sprinkler irrigation droplet landing velocity for all sizes of droplets is not related to nozzle pressure and the values of landing velocity are very close to that of natural rainfall. The velocity horizontal component increases with radial distance while the velocity vertical component decreases with radial distance. Additionally, landing angle of all droplet sizes decreases with radial distance. The kinetic energy is decomposed into vertical component and horizontal component due to the oblique angles of droplet impact on the surface soil, and this may aggravate soil erosion. Therefore the actual oblique angle of impact should be considered in actual field conditions and measures should be taken for remediation of soil erosion if necessary.</p>


Geophysics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. V41-V59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Tiapkina ◽  
Martin Landrø ◽  
Yuriy Tyapkin ◽  
Brian Link

The advent of single receiver point, multi-component geophones has necessitated that ground roll be removed in the processing flow rather than through acquisition design. A wide class of processing methods for ground-roll elimination is polarization filtering. A number of these methods use singular value decomposition (SVD) or some related transformations. We focus on a single-station SVD-based polarization filter that we consider to be one of the best in the industry. The method is comprised of two stages: (1) ground-roll detection and (2) ground-roll estimation and filtering. To detect the ground roll, a special attribute dependent on the singular values of a three-column matrix formed by a sliding time window is used. The ground roll is approximated and subtracted using the first two eigenimages of this matrix. To limit the possible damage to the signal, the filter operates within the record intervals where the ground roll is detected and within the ground-roll frequency bandwidth only. We improve the ground-roll detector to make it theoretically insensitive to ambient noise and more sensitive to the presence of ground roll. The advantage of the new detector is demonstrated on synthetic and field data sets. We estimate theoretically and with synthetic data the attenuation of the underlying reflections that can be caused by the polarization filter. We show that the underlying signal always loses almost all the energy on the vertical component and on the horizontal component in the ground-roll propagation plane and within the ground-roll frequency bandwidth. The only signal component, if it exists, that can retain a significant part of its energy is the horizontal component orthogonal to the above plane. When 2D 3C field operations are conducted, the signal particle motion can deviate from the ground-roll propagation plane and can therefore retain some of its energy due to a set of offline reflections. In the case of 3D 3C seismic surveys, the reflected signal always deviates from the ground-roll propagation plane on the receiver lines that do not contain the source. This is confirmed with a 2.5D 3C synthetic data set. We discuss when the ability of the filter to effectively subtract the ground roll may, or may not, allow us to ignore the inevitable harm that is done to the underlying reflected waves.


1998 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghua Shi ◽  
Won-Young Kim ◽  
Paul G. Richards

Abstract This article presents the estimation of stress drops for small to middle-sized intraplate earthquakes in the northeastern United States. The vertical-component Sg and Lg waves of 49 earthquakes were analyzed, and their seismic corner frequencies and seismic moments were determined. For these events, both short-period and broadband records were obtained from stations in the region. There are eight events each of which has an aftershock good enough to be treated as its empirical Green's function, and their corner frequencies were estimated from empirical Green's function methods. For the other events, the corner frequencies were directly estimated by the spectral fitting of the vertical component of the Sg- or Lg-wave displacement spectrum with the ω-square source spectral model, using the available broadband and high-frequency short-period data and a frequency-dependent Q correction. The static stress drops, Δσ, were then calculated from the corner frequency and seismic moment. From our study, the source corner frequencies estimated by fitting the Lg displacement spectrum with the assumed ω-square source model are more consistent with the corner frequencies measured from empirical Green's function deconvolution method than those estimated from the intersection of horizontal low-frequency spectral asymptote and a line indicating the ω−2 decay above the corner frequency. The source corner frequencies we estimated proved to be most appropriate for the small to middle-sized earthquakes. The static stress drops calculated from these corner-frequency estimates tend to be independent of seismic moment for events above a certain size. For earthquakes with size less than about 2 × 1020 dyne-cm, the stress drop tends to decrease with decreasing moment, suggesting a breakdown in self-similarity below a threshold magnitude. A characteristic rupture size of about 100 m is implied for these smaller earthquakes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 1848-1853
Author(s):  
Lin Qing Huang ◽  
Li Ping Wang ◽  
Chao Lie Ning

The hill buildings sited on slopes have been widely constructed in mountainous regions. In order to estimate the seismic vulnerability of the hill buildings with uneven ground column heights under the effect of potential earthquakes, the exceedance probabilities of the hill buildings sited on different angle slopes in peak ground acceleration (PGA) are calculated and compared by using the incremental dynamic analysis method. The fragility curves show the slope angle has considerable influence on the seismic performance. Specifically, the exceedance probability increases with the increasing of the slope angle at the same performance level.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Kwan Kim ◽  
Hong-Gun Park ◽  
Chang-Guk Sun

Site response analyses were performed to investigate the earthquake response of structures with shallow soil depth conditions in Korea. The analysis parameters included the properties of soft soil deposits at 487 sites, input earthquake accelerations, and peak ground-acceleration levels. The response spectra resulting from numerical analyses were compared with the design response spectra (DRS) specified in the 2015 International Building Code. The results showed that the earthquake motion of shallow soft soil was significantly different from that of deep soft soil, which was the basis of the IBC DRS. The responses of the structures were amplified when their dynamic periods were close to those of the site. In the case of sites with dynamic periods less than 0.4 s, the spectral accelerations of short-period structures were greater than those of the DRS corresponding to the site class specified in IBC 2015. On the basis of these results, a new form of DRS and soil factors are proposed.


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