ⒺGround-Motion Attenuation Relationship for East Central Iran

Abstract Predictive attenuation relationships have been developed for peak ground acceleration and spectral coordinates based on observed and simulated records for East Central Iran. First, the predictive relationships are derived based on observed records. The observed data set, which was considered, includes a total of 258 records from 109 earthquakes with a magnitude range of 5.0–7.4 on rock site. Then a suite of ground motions has been simulated for a range of magnitude and distances based on the stochastic finite fault ground-motion model. The theoretical–empirical attenuation relationship, which has been developed for the horizontal component of peak ground acceleration and spectral acceleration, is applicable to earthquakes ofMw 5.0–7.4 at a distance up to 100 km. Online Material Earthquake catalog