Reference database for seismic ground-motion in Europe (RESORCE)

2014-02-01
AKKAR, SİNAN
SANDIKKAYA, M. A.
SENYURT, M.
SISI, A. Azari
Ay, Bekir Özer
TRAVERSA, P.
DOUGLAS, J.
COTTON, F.
LUZI, L.
HERNANDEZ, B.
GODEY, S.
This paper presents the overall procedure followed in order to assemble the most recent pan-European strong-motion databank: Reference Database for Seismic Ground-Motion in Europe (RESORCE). RESORCE is one of the products of the SeIsmic Ground Motion Assessment (SIGMA; projet-sigma.com) project. RESORCE is intended to be a single integrated accelerometric databank for Europe and surrounding areas for use in the development and testing of ground-motion models and for other engineering seismology and earthquake engineering applications. RESORCE aims to contribute to the improvement of earthquake risk studies in Europe and surrounding areas. RESORCE principally updates and extends the previous pan-European strong-motion databank (Ambraseys et al. in Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata 45:113-129, 2004a) with recently compiled Greek, Italian, Swiss and Turkish accelerometric archives. The updates also include earthquake-specific studies published in recent years. The current content of RESORCE includes 5,882 multi-component and uniformly processed accelerograms from 1,814 events and 1,540 strong-motion stations. The moment magnitude range covered by RESORCE is . The source-to-site distance interval extends to 587 km and distance information is given by the common point- and extended-source distance measures. The paper presents the current features of RESORCE through simple statistics that also quantify the differences in metadata and strong-motion processing with respect to the previous version of the pan-European strong-motion databank.
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S. AKKAR et al., “Reference database for seismic ground-motion in Europe (RESORCE),” BULLETIN OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, pp. 311–339, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48922.