An ML Scale in Northwestern Italyby D. Spallarossa, D. Bindi, P. Augliera, and M. CattaneoAbstractA local-magnitude scale is derived for northwestern Italy from waveform
data recorded at 17 stations from 2600 local earthquakes, ranging in distance
from 10 to 300 km. By averaging the horizontal components in a single measure,
we used 8127 zero-to-peak amplitudes from synthetic Wood–Anderson seismograms
to determine, in a least-squares sense, the appropriate −log A0 attenuation function,
the event local magnitude, and the station corrections. Both a parametric and a nonparametric
description of −log A0 is considered while performing the inversion. In
both cases, the constraint of 1-mm motion recorded at 100 km for a magnitude 3.0
earthquake was used. The resulting parametric distance correction is given by −log
A0 = 1.144log(r/100) + 0.00476(r − 100) + 3. The remarkable agreement between
the parametric and nonparametric results confirms that the assumptions on the attenuation
function that we made for deriving the parametric distance correction are
reasonable. Moreover, inversion of bootstrap replications of our data set furnished
stable solutions. Station magnitude corrections range between −0.28 and 0.48, suggesting
a variable and significant effect of station site properties on recorded amplitudes.
Finally, the local-magnitude scale has been used to evaluate the magnitude
values for the whole catalog of earthquakes recorded by the [ Back ] |