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    An Evaluation of the Applicability of NGA-West2 Ground-Motion Models for Japan and New Zealand

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    Authors
    Mak, Sum
    Cotton, Fabrice
    Gerstenberger, Matthew
    Schorlemmer, Danijel
    KAUST Grant Number
    URF/1/2160-01-01
    Date
    2018-01-30
    Online Publication Date
    2018-01-30
    Print Publication Date
    2018-04
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/629735
    
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    Abstract
    We compared the accuracies of the probabilistic predictions of strong ground motions made by ground-motion models (GMMs) using the observed ground motions from 13 Japanese and 14 New Zealand shallow crustal earthquakes with moderate-to-large magnitude (5.5–6.6 for Japan and 5.07–7.85 for New Zealand). The data are independent of the GMMs so only the predictive power, instead of the explanatory power, of the models is evaluated. We examined the performance gains of state-of-the-art GMMs developed under the Next Generation Attenuation-West2 (NGA-West2) project over widely adopted regional GMMs for Japan and New Zealand. The large global dataset used by NGA-West2 GMMs allows sophisticated modeling, whereas the regional datasets used by regional GMMs may more directly represent region-specific ground-motion features. We measured the model performance by a newly developed method based on the multivariate logarithmic score, an extension of the widely used univariate logarithmic score (LLH) method. Our method measures the relative performance of models, taking into account the effects of data correlation, unbalanced data, and result variability. For the Japan case, we evaluated the model predictions for peak ground velocity (PGV) and found that NGA-West2 GMMs unambiguously performed better than regional GMMs and the superseded NGA GMMs. Proposed regional optimizations implemented in NGA-West2 GMMs improved the predictions for some models but had adverse effects for others. For the New Zealand case, we evaluated the model predictions for peak ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral accelerations at 0.3, 1, and 3 s and found that a recently developed regional GMM performed well, but NGA-West2 GMMs with performance comparable to or better than the regional model can also be identified. There appears to be no general answer as to whether a regional or global model should be preferred or whether a newer model is always better than the superseded model. This highlights the importance of evaluating the predictive power of GMMs using independent data.
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    Mak S, Cotton F, Gerstenberger M, Schorlemmer D (2018) An Evaluation of the Applicability of NGA-West2 Ground-Motion Models for Japan and New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108: 836–856. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120170146.
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    The authors thank all modelers who have provided unpublished information about their models (see Data and Resources). The authors thank Timothy Ancheta (Risk Management Solutions [RMS]) for explaining how some of the Next Generation Attenuation-West2 (NGA-West2) metadata were computed. The authors acknowledge the Natural Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) (F-net, K-NET, and KiK-net) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Japan, for providing data used in this study. The authors acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors Earthquake Commission (EQC), GNS Science, and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), for providing data used in this study. The authors thank Brendon Bradley (University of Canterbury) and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments that have substantially improved this article. The first author was supported by the ReThinking Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) project financed by the New Zealand Natural Hazards Research Platform for a visit to GNS Science for developing this study. This study was supported by the Global Earthquake Model Foundation and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) research Grant URF/1/2160-01-01.
    Publisher
    Seismological Society of America (SSA)
    Journal
    Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
    DOI
    10.1785/0120170146
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1785/0120170146
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