Articolo in rivista, 2022, ENG

Italian seismic amplification factors for peak ground acceleration and peak ground velocity

Amerigo Mendicelli, Gaetano Falcone, Gianluca Acunzo, Federico Mori, Giuseppe Naso, Edoardo Peronace, Attilio Porchia, Gino Romagnoli, Massimiliano Moscatelli

CNR-IGAG, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Roma, Italy; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio e di Chimica (DICATECh), Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy; Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC), Roma, Italy

Ground motion modification over large areas is generally evaluated by focusing on source effects disregarding local lithostratigraphic site conditions. Hence, amplification maps of peak ground acceleration and peak ground velocity are proposed to improve the forecast of ground motion on a national scale. Topological information about litho-type successions and soil mechanical behaviour were retrieved from the Italian database of seismic microzonation and more than 30 million of seismic site response analyses were performed to quantify the amplification factors (i.e. the ratio between expected ground motion at the site of interest and that at the outcropping engineering bedrock). The maximum value of the amplified peak ground acceleration on the Italian territory results in about twice as much as the value expected at the outcropping of the engineering bedrock. Finally, damage scenario maps based on the amplified ground motion could be produced as a supporting tool for urban planning and emergency system management.

Journal of maps (Stud. ed.)

Keywords

Italian seismic microzonation data, one-dimensional geotechnical model, seismic site response analyses, maps of amplification factors, territorial and emergency planning

CNR authors

Acunzo Gianluca, Porchia Attilio, Mendicelli Amerigo, Falcone Gaetano, Romagnoli Gino, Moscatelli Massimiliano, Peronace Edoardo, Mori Federico

CNR institutes