Reply to comment on 'Shear wave profile from surface wave inversion: the impact of uncertainty on seismic site response analysis'

被引:8
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作者
Boaga, Jacopo [1 ]
Vignoli, Giulio [1 ,2 ]
Cassiani, Giorgio [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Geosci, I-35122 Padua, Italy
[2] King Fahd Univ Petr & Minerals, Dept Earth Sci, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
关键词
surface waves; inversion; seismic site response; soil resonance period;
D O I
10.1088/1742-2132/9/2/244
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
Socco et al (2012 J. Geophys. Eng. 9 241) comment on our study about the effect of non-uniqueness of surface wave solutions on seismic site response analysis. In particular, they refer to the approach we adopted for the selection of equivalent shear wave velocity profiles and argue that it leads to overestimation of the uncertainty due to the inherent ill-posedness of the problem. Moreover, for one of the synthetic cases of our original paper, they calculate a different set of equivalent velocity profiles, retrieving the corresponding amplification spectra. From these results, Socco et al claim that their general conclusion that the impact of solution non-uniqueness on seismic response simulations is negligible. In this reply we demonstrate that (a) the uncertainty bounds used by Socco et al in their prediction analysis, as a consequence of their surface wave inversion procedure, are unreasonably narrow; (b) consequently, their shaking predictions appear to suffer no impact from their underestimated uncertainty; and (c) their presented case shows an amplification spectrum that is only the result of assuming the existence of a bedrock at 150 m that causes resonance of the overlying layer-practically independent of the details of the S-wave velocity distribution.
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页码:244 / 246
页数:3
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