DEVELOPMENT OF EARTHQUAKE ALERT SYSTEM USING ONSITE SEISMOMETERS AND ITS PERFORMANCE

Abstract

An earthquake disaster prevention system using onsite seismometers has been developed since 2009. However, ground motion intensities are underestimated for far-field earthquakes, such as great subduction earthquakes. In this paper, a general procedure to improve S-wave intensity prediction for far-field earthquakes is presented. The proposed method predicts S-wave intensity (peak ground acceleration) just before arrival of S-wave, using information of P-wave intensity as well as its duration. Finally, accuracy of the proposed method is validated with simulation using observed records. These results confirmed that S-wave intensity can be accurately estimated by the proposed method.