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Accounting for path and site effects in spatial ground-motion correlation models using Bayesian inference
Lukas Bodenmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil,
Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Jack W. Baker
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, USA
Božidar Stojadinović
Department of Civil,
Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Understanding spatial patterns in earthquake-induced ground motions is key for assessing the seismic risk of distributed infrastructure systems. To study such patterns, we propose a novel model that accounts for spatial proximity, as well as site and path effects, and estimate its parameters from past earthquake data by explicitly quantifying the inherent uncertainties.
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