# Identification of Far-Field Long-Period Ground Motions Using Phase Derivatives

Authors: Minghui Dai; Yingmin Li; Shuoyu Liu; Yinfeng Dong
Journal: Advances in Civil Engineering
 (2019)

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## Abstract

The characteristics of long-period ground motions are of significant concern to engineering communities largely due to resonance-induced responses of long-period structures to far-field long-period ground motions which are excited by the existence of distant sedimentary basins. Classifications of records enable applications of far-field long-period ground motions in seismology and engineering practices, such as attenuation models and dynamic analysis of structures. Accordingly, the study herein aims to develop an approach for identifying the far-field long-period ground motions in terms of the later-arriving long-period surface waves. Envelope delays derived from phase derivatives are employed to determine the later-arriving long-period components on the basis of phase dispersion. A quantitative calibration for long-period properties is defined in terms of the ratio of energy from later-arriving long-period components to the total energy of a ground motion. In order to increase the accuracy of candidate far-field long-period records caused by sediments, recording stations within basins or plains are collected from the K-NET and KiK-net strong-motion networks. Subsequently, the motions are manually classified into two categories in order to form a training dataset by visual examinations on their velocity waveform. The two predictive variables, including the corner frequency obtained from envelope delays and the corresponding energy ratio, are used for the establishment of the classification criterion. Furthermore, the analysis of classification results provides insight into the causes for discrepancy and verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, comparisons of the mean normalized acceleration response spectrum with respect to the predictors, as well as the local site effects, are performed.


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## Body

## 1. Introduction

Far-field long-period ground motions result in the resonant shaking of long-period structures to an extent which is in excess of that predicted based on the intensity of the motions. It is well documented that the primary causation of resonant-induced responses during the 1985 Michoacan earthquake may be attributed to far-field long-period motions; structures in Mexico city (located approximately 400 km to the epicenter) were damaged to a more significant degree than those adjacent to near faults. Hereafter, a number of studies on far-field long-period ground motions have been conducted in the realms of both engineering and seismology. Subsequent events, such as 1999 Chi-Chi, 2003 Tokachi, 2004 off peninsula, 2008 WenChuan, and 2011 Tohoku earthquake [1–4], have permitted researchers to recognize the vulnerability of structures with an intrinsic long‐period to far-field long-period motions, even if their amplitude is relatively small at distant sedimentary layers. Generally, far-field long-period motions are mostly distinguished themselves by the presence of later-arriving surface waves, consisting of long-period components, which are manifested in the form of the sinusoidal waves in a velocity time series [5, 6]. Furthermore, the performance of high-rise buildings subjected to far-field long-period motions was investigated considering the inclusion of the effects of SSI, suggesting that long-period surface waves make the significant contribution to structural responses relative to that from body waves [11].Compared with near-fault ground motions which feature distances normally confined to 50 km, as inferred from the literatures [6, 12], the present paper is concerned with long-period ground motions which are generated in distant sedimentary layers. In consideration of “pulse-like motions” with long-period characteristics, as suggested by researchers [13, 14], far-field long-period motions are denominated “long-period motions” in an attempt to differentiate two terminologies. On the contrary, ground motions with predominantly high frequencies are referred as “non-long-period ground motions.”It is beneficial to enrich recorded collections of long-period ground motions for the electronic database in practical studies. Specifically, a database of long-period motions for the purpose of conducting the assessment pertaining to long-period structures is available to engineers; furthermore, the prediction of whether a ground motion in a given seismic environment will contain later-arriving long-period surface waves is readily performed by seismologists. However, identification of long-period motions in past studies almost depends on individual judgments, and thus varied classifications from researchers give rise to an impediment in reproducing results associated with long-period properties due to the lack of a quantitative criterion.As seen in Figure1(a), for example, the recorded velocity series, ILA056NS, Chi-Chi, M7.6, and earthquake, presents long-period surface waves in a series of full cycles. It is clear that such long-period waves arrive later than body waves which feature high-frequency components, thus extending the duration of the shaking process and further accounting for the increased amplitudes. In view of this, this motion is inarguably identified as a long-period ground motion. In contrast, a visual examination, allowing for the classification of TCG006NS from Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku, M7.2, earthquake, shown in Figure 1(b), presents challenges due to an absence of apparent full cycles from the corresponding velocity-time history. Because of this, classifying such motion by means of visual examination seems ambiguous. The velocity-time history for HDKH06NS, Tokachi, M8, earthquake, shown in Figure 1(c), is undoubtedly classified as a non-long-period motion due to the lack of visible long-period waves.Figure 1
Examples of velocity histories for recordings from (a) 1999 ILA056NS, Chi-Chi, M7.6, earthquake; (b) 2008 TCG006NS, Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku, M7.2, earthquake; (c) 2003 HDKH06NS, Tokachi, M8, earthquake, respectively.
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(b)
(c)Knowledge of the mechanism of long-period ground motions is essential in order to permit the differentiation of their characteristics from non-long-period ground motions. In general, it is recognized that an appearance of surface waves by the conversion of body waves at margins of either basins or plains with sedimentary wave guides is an outstanding feature [5, 15–17]. In the vein of this notion, the schematic plot is presented in Figure 2, which delineates variations in the velocity waveforms relative to the geological site. This suggests that arrival times are dependent upon frequencies on the basis of phase dispersion. Additionally, path effect, mentioned in consideration of completeness but without discussing details herein, is treated as another factor [18–20] which results in amplifications of the surface waves over specific periods, accounting for overlapping of multipathing surface waves along propagation [5].Figure 2
The schematic plot illustrates the mechanism for long-period ground motions.However, considering complicated rupture processes and the trajectory of the source to engineering sites, it seems difficulties in collecting seismological information if the determination of long-period motions in practice is required. The quantitative criterion, therefore, is developed based on the analysis of the properties of long-period ground motions themselves rather than explorations over their origins based on seismological knowledge, which is beyond the scope of the present discussion. Instead, as inferred from the articles [5, 15, 20], envelope delays derived from phase derivatives are capable of capturing variations of arrival times with frequencies. Thus, the influences of long-period surface waves on lengthening duration of ground motions are proposed [21]. Furthermore, the velocity structure pertaining to layered media with the aid of envelope delays is approximately formulated, and the reliability of the corresponding results is validated with reference to geological investigations [5, 22].In this article, the proposed method for the identification of long-period ground motions employs phase derivatives, by which the later-arriving long-period components (mostly consisting of long-period surface waves) can be detected. The rationale behind this method is manifested by the measurement of contributions from the later-arriving long-period surface waves to the ground motion in terms of energy. In this respect, the later-arriving long-period components in the frequency domain are obtained by the calculation of envelope delays, which indicate relative arrival time dependent on frequencies. Then, a quantitative assessment of long-period characteristics relative to the ground motion is performed on the basis of later-arriving long-period components. The ground motions library of K-NET and KiK-net strong-motion networks, Japan, are used for collections of preliminary candidate long-period ground motions. The resulting quantitative criterion is proposed as the result of logistic regression. Furthermore, examinations of classification results are performed in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. In addition, variations of long-period properties from classifications are investigated by means of normalized acceleration response spectra.


## 2. Proposed Method for Identification

### 2.1. Envelope Delay

It is documented that surface waves travel at a lower velocity than body waves, resulting in variations of phase arrivals which are frequency dependent [5, 20]. In relation to this, envelope delays calculated from phase derivatives [15] are adopted herein in order to facilitate the detection of long-period components.Based on the theorem of Fourier transform, we can readily write a pair of equations as follows:(1)Fw=∫−∞+∞fteiwtdt,(2)AlsoFw=Aweiθw,where both amplitude Aω and phase θω are functions of angular frequency ω, both of which are treated as the result of the conversion process of a time series signal ft into complex amplitudes Fw to form a frequency domain representation by means of the Fourier transform; Aω=reFω2+imFω2 and θω=arctanimFω/reFω; re⋅ and im⋅ are real and imaginary component operations, respectively.Taking the logarithm on both sides of equation (2) and performing differentiation with respect to angular frequency ω, the form can be written after performing the imaginary component operation:(3)imdFwFwdw=dθwdw.Furthermore, equation (1) is substituted into equation (3) after differentiation of equation (1) with respect to angular frequency ω, and then equation (3) can be recast in the form as follows:(4)imiGwreFw+iimFw=dθwdw,where(5)iGw=i∫−∞+∞tfteiwtdt.Finally, the mathematical expression for phase derivatives by simplification of equation (4) is given as(6)dθwdw=reGwreFw+imGwimFwreFw2+imFw2.It is worth noting that equation (5) implies the centroid time of an angular frequency ω over the entire time series. In essence, it represents the relative arrival time of a particular angular frequency ω. Thus, variations in relative frequency-based arrival times can be estimated using frequency-dependent envelope delays in the context of phase dispersion [15, 21].In order to illustrate the difference between envelope delays in terms of velocity waveforms, two examples are shown in Figure3. The velocity time series for CHBH12NS, Tohuku, M9, earthquake and corresponding envelope delays derived from its acceleration time series are shown in Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b), respectively. It is found that the differences in arrival times are particularly obvious at between frequencies lower than 2.12 Hz and above, as is consistent with the observations which indicate that the long-period surface waves arrive later relative to high frequencies in Figure 3(a). In contrast, Figure 3(d) for the record ISK004EW from Niigataken Chuetsu-oki, M6.8, earthquake shows that arrival times for low frequencies are not as sensitive as those from CHBH12NS. However, from the two examples, it is clear that the majority of arrival times for high frequencies coincide with the time point at which the peak value of their time history occurs.Figure 3
Comparison of envelope delays for the identified long-period motion of CHBH12NS from Tohuku, M9, earthquake and non-long-period motion of ISK004EW from Niigataken, Chuetsu-oki, M6.8, earthquake. The fitted line is derived by fitting the piecewise function to actual envelop delays in the sense of the least squares algorithm considering the weight function. (a) and (c) velocity-time series; (b) and (d) envelope delays including the fitted line. Note that the lower-right quadrant in (b) and (d) shows the later-arriving long-period amplitudes involved in the calculation of the energy ratio.
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(b)
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(d)According to the observations delineated in Figure3, a trend is derived pertaining to the sensitivity of envelope delays to low frequencies which mostly account for later-arriving surface waves, while arrival times corresponding to high frequencies are correlated substantially with the time wherein the peak value occurs. Thus, herein a two-piecewise frequency function is adopted in order to capture envelope delays, as similarly suggested by Boore [15]. Arrival time tf dependent on frequency is given as(7)tf=αlnf+β,f≤fcorner,tfcorner,f>fcorner,where the frequency variable is attained from f=w/2π; the corner frequency fcorner is used to identify the components which exhibit arrival times with sensitivities to low frequencies; correspondingly, tfcorner represents the arrival time for the majority of high-frequency components by the assumption that their envelope delays are insensitive to frequencies; the coefficient α reflects the change of arrival times in terms of frequencies lower than fcorner; and the constant β is used to ensure the mathematical significance of the frequency-based function, especially as the limit of ln⋅ tends to exhibit negative infinity when the variable of frequency approaches zero. It is necessary to note that the plots for envelope delays in this paper are illustrated in the form of arrival times (sec) and frequency (Hz) on the abscissa and ordinate, respectively, in an attempt to make satisfactory comparisons with the corresponding time series.The least squares approximation considering the weight function is introduced for the purpose of obtaining the coefficients ofα, β, fcorner, and tfcorner by minimizing the integrated square difference between actual envelope delays t∧f and the assigned model tf, so the objective function α∧ is expressed as(8)α∧=argminα∫0fut∧f−tf2Bfdf,where fu is the upper cutoff frequency and Bf represents the weight function calculated from amplitudes Af at frequencies f. With reference to equation (6), phase derivation is linked to the amplitudes A2πf, and the introduction of weight function facilitates the elimination of bias towards the formation of the curve of envelope delays. In addition, parameter constraints are required to ensure that the fitted parameters are within the physically defined limits, α is confined to (0, −71] in this paper following a multitude trials; fcorner is limited to (0, 15 Hz] in order to account for frequencies of interest.


### 2.2. Energy Ratio

The envelope delay describes the frequency component of the time evolution because of natural dispersion caused by surface waves. However, there is an existing problem associated with how the characteristics of later-arriving long-period components can be presented in the form of energy relative to high-frequency components. It is clear that geological effect, including basins or plains, accounts for amplifications of the long-period motions over long periods. Thus, the intensity of later-arriving surface waves can be estimated via the measurement of energy relative to the total energy of the motion.Following this line, the later-arriving long-period amplitudeAl should meet the following two criteria: (a) the frequency is less than the corner frequency fcorner and (b) the corresponding value of arrival time tf is greater than that of tfcorner. This means that later-arriving long-period amplitude Al is a function of the frequency f and the arrival time tf. In order to illustrate this, the lower-right quadrant which is a representative of Al is marked in each of the figures related to envelope delays. The amplitudes Al for the later-arriving long-period components are written as(9)Al=Atf,f,forfandtf∈0<f≤fcorner,tf≥tfcorner.Accordingly, the ratio of the sum of the squared amplitudesAl, obtained from the later-arriving long-period components, to the total energy of the ground motion in the frequency content is defined as the energy ratio Eratio:(10)Eratio=∑nAl2∑NAf2,where amplitudes Af are derived from the Fourier transformation for a ground motion, N is a representative of the total number of amplitudes of a ground motion in the frequency domain, and n corresponds to the number of later-arriving long-period amplitudes Al.As shown in Figure3(b), the lower-right quadrant indicates that the energy ratio Eratio for the recording CHBH12NS is 0.683, coupled with the corner frequency of 2.12 Hz. In stark contrast, Figure 4(d) indicates Eratio of ISK004EW at an extremely small value of 0.0039, with its corner frequency equating to 0.64 Hz. The large difference in energy ratios between the two records is consistent with the variations exhibited in velocity-time series. It is suggested from the comparison that the energy ratio Eratio provides an assessment of the intensity of the later-arriving long-period components relative to the ground motion in terms of energy.Figure 4
The map shows that stations belonging to K-NET and KiK-net strong networks, Japan, are distributed across Osaka plain, Nobi plain, Kanto basin, and Yufutsu plain, respectively, wherein geological conditions are likely to generate long-period motions; in terms of site classifications referring to the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) standards, the stations are marked with circles, stars, and triangles to represent C, D, and E site classifications, respectively; pentagons represent the epicenter of each event.


## 2.1. Envelope Delay

It is documented that surface waves travel at a lower velocity than body waves, resulting in variations of phase arrivals which are frequency dependent [5, 20]. In relation to this, envelope delays calculated from phase derivatives [15] are adopted herein in order to facilitate the detection of long-period components.Based on the theorem of Fourier transform, we can readily write a pair of equations as follows:(1)Fw=∫−∞+∞fteiwtdt,(2)AlsoFw=Aweiθw,where both amplitude Aω and phase θω are functions of angular frequency ω, both of which are treated as the result of the conversion process of a time series signal ft into complex amplitudes Fw to form a frequency domain representation by means of the Fourier transform; Aω=reFω2+imFω2 and θω=arctanimFω/reFω; re⋅ and im⋅ are real and imaginary component operations, respectively.Taking the logarithm on both sides of equation (2) and performing differentiation with respect to angular frequency ω, the form can be written after performing the imaginary component operation:(3)imdFwFwdw=dθwdw.Furthermore, equation (1) is substituted into equation (3) after differentiation of equation (1) with respect to angular frequency ω, and then equation (3) can be recast in the form as follows:(4)imiGwreFw+iimFw=dθwdw,where(5)iGw=i∫−∞+∞tfteiwtdt.Finally, the mathematical expression for phase derivatives by simplification of equation (4) is given as(6)dθwdw=reGwreFw+imGwimFwreFw2+imFw2.It is worth noting that equation (5) implies the centroid time of an angular frequency ω over the entire time series. In essence, it represents the relative arrival time of a particular angular frequency ω. Thus, variations in relative frequency-based arrival times can be estimated using frequency-dependent envelope delays in the context of phase dispersion [15, 21].In order to illustrate the difference between envelope delays in terms of velocity waveforms, two examples are shown in Figure3. The velocity time series for CHBH12NS, Tohuku, M9, earthquake and corresponding envelope delays derived from its acceleration time series are shown in Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b), respectively. It is found that the differences in arrival times are particularly obvious at between frequencies lower than 2.12 Hz and above, as is consistent with the observations which indicate that the long-period surface waves arrive later relative to high frequencies in Figure 3(a). In contrast, Figure 3(d) for the record ISK004EW from Niigataken Chuetsu-oki, M6.8, earthquake shows that arrival times for low frequencies are not as sensitive as those from CHBH12NS. However, from the two examples, it is clear that the majority of arrival times for high frequencies coincide with the time point at which the peak value of their time history occurs.Figure 3
Comparison of envelope delays for the identified long-period motion of CHBH12NS from Tohuku, M9, earthquake and non-long-period motion of ISK004EW from Niigataken, Chuetsu-oki, M6.8, earthquake. The fitted line is derived by fitting the piecewise function to actual envelop delays in the sense of the least squares algorithm considering the weight function. (a) and (c) velocity-time series; (b) and (d) envelope delays including the fitted line. Note that the lower-right quadrant in (b) and (d) shows the later-arriving long-period amplitudes involved in the calculation of the energy ratio.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)According to the observations delineated in Figure3, a trend is derived pertaining to the sensitivity of envelope delays to low frequencies which mostly account for later-arriving surface waves, while arrival times corresponding to high frequencies are correlated substantially with the time wherein the peak value occurs. Thus, herein a two-piecewise frequency function is adopted in order to capture envelope delays, as similarly suggested by Boore [15]. Arrival time tf dependent on frequency is given as(7)tf=αlnf+β,f≤fcorner,tfcorner,f>fcorner,where the frequency variable is attained from f=w/2π; the corner frequency fcorner is used to identify the components which exhibit arrival times with sensitivities to low frequencies; correspondingly, tfcorner represents the arrival time for the majority of high-frequency components by the assumption that their envelope delays are insensitive to frequencies; the coefficient α reflects the change of arrival times in terms of frequencies lower than fcorner; and the constant β is used to ensure the mathematical significance of the frequency-based function, especially as the limit of ln⋅ tends to exhibit negative infinity when the variable of frequency approaches zero. It is necessary to note that the plots for envelope delays in this paper are illustrated in the form of arrival times (sec) and frequency (Hz) on the abscissa and ordinate, respectively, in an attempt to make satisfactory comparisons with the corresponding time series.The least squares approximation considering the weight function is introduced for the purpose of obtaining the coefficients ofα, β, fcorner, and tfcorner by minimizing the integrated square difference between actual envelope delays t∧f and the assigned model tf, so the objective function α∧ is expressed as(8)α∧=argminα∫0fut∧f−tf2Bfdf,where fu is the upper cutoff frequency and Bf represents the weight function calculated from amplitudes Af at frequencies f. With reference to equation (6), phase derivation is linked to the amplitudes A2πf, and the introduction of weight function facilitates the elimination of bias towards the formation of the curve of envelope delays. In addition, parameter constraints are required to ensure that the fitted parameters are within the physically defined limits, α is confined to (0, −71] in this paper following a multitude trials; fcorner is limited to (0, 15 Hz] in order to account for frequencies of interest.


## 2.2. Energy Ratio

The envelope delay describes the frequency component of the time evolution because of natural dispersion caused by surface waves. However, there is an existing problem associated with how the characteristics of later-arriving long-period components can be presented in the form of energy relative to high-frequency components. It is clear that geological effect, including basins or plains, accounts for amplifications of the long-period motions over long periods. Thus, the intensity of later-arriving surface waves can be estimated via the measurement of energy relative to the total energy of the motion.Following this line, the later-arriving long-period amplitudeAl should meet the following two criteria: (a) the frequency is less than the corner frequency fcorner and (b) the corresponding value of arrival time tf is greater than that of tfcorner. This means that later-arriving long-period amplitude Al is a function of the frequency f and the arrival time tf. In order to illustrate this, the lower-right quadrant which is a representative of Al is marked in each of the figures related to envelope delays. The amplitudes Al for the later-arriving long-period components are written as(9)Al=Atf,f,forfandtf∈0<f≤fcorner,tf≥tfcorner.Accordingly, the ratio of the sum of the squared amplitudesAl, obtained from the later-arriving long-period components, to the total energy of the ground motion in the frequency content is defined as the energy ratio Eratio:(10)Eratio=∑nAl2∑NAf2,where amplitudes Af are derived from the Fourier transformation for a ground motion, N is a representative of the total number of amplitudes of a ground motion in the frequency domain, and n corresponds to the number of later-arriving long-period amplitudes Al.As shown in Figure3(b), the lower-right quadrant indicates that the energy ratio Eratio for the recording CHBH12NS is 0.683, coupled with the corner frequency of 2.12 Hz. In stark contrast, Figure 4(d) indicates Eratio of ISK004EW at an extremely small value of 0.0039, with its corner frequency equating to 0.64 Hz. The large difference in energy ratios between the two records is consistent with the variations exhibited in velocity-time series. It is suggested from the comparison that the energy ratio Eratio provides an assessment of the intensity of the later-arriving long-period components relative to the ground motion in terms of energy.Figure 4
The map shows that stations belonging to K-NET and KiK-net strong networks, Japan, are distributed across Osaka plain, Nobi plain, Kanto basin, and Yufutsu plain, respectively, wherein geological conditions are likely to generate long-period motions; in terms of site classifications referring to the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) standards, the stations are marked with circles, stars, and triangles to represent C, D, and E site classifications, respectively; pentagons represent the epicenter of each event.


## 3. Ground Motions

For the purpose of classifications, it is necessary to collect a database consisting of long-period and non-long-period ground motions. K-NET and KiK-net strong-motion networks are used herein as sources of long-period and non-long-period ground motions.Figure4 shows a map linked to recording stations within either sedimentary basins or plains in Japan. It is known that K-NET and KiK-net strong-motion networks provide detailed information regarding these sites, wherein geological effects allow for the excitation of long-period motions. In light of this, the recording stations marked in Figure 4 were deliberately chosen on the basis of the provision of geological information (http://www.kyoshin.bosai.go.jp). This step improves the selection accuracy of long-period ground motions caused by geological effects. According to the guidelines of the NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program), local site classifications are obtained after calculating v30 (average shear-wave velocity of a profile up to 30 m) for each site. In this regard, of approximately 267 checked stations which are distributed over the sedimentary sites in Figure 4, the numbers of soil conditions for C, D, and E are 98, 141, and 28, respectively.The events which are of concern to seismologists and engineers [2–4, 23] reveal the fact that long-period ground motions enable long-period structures to excite resonant responses. In relation to this, the events with magnitudes greater than M6.5 and focal depths below 45 km are listed in Table 1, with each epicenter marked in Figure 4. The premise for setting the minimum magnitude and depth is that large seismic magnitudes can maintain intensity significant enough to trigger substantial structural responses at distant sources and shallow events are prone to excite surface waves, which are amplified in deep sedimentary basins [24].Table 1
Events used in the paper.
Number
Date
Magnitude
Latitude
Longitude
Depth
Event index∗
Event name or epicenter region
1
20001006
7.3
35.20
133.35
11
5
Western Tottori prefecture
2
20030926
7.1
41.71
143.69
21
6
Tokachi-oki
3
20030926
8
41.78
144.07
42
3
4
20040905
7.4
33.15
137.14
44
4
Southeast of Kii peninsula
5
20041023
6.8
37.29
138.87
13
11
Mid Niigata Prefecture
6
20041129
7.1
42.95
145.27
48
8
Off Nemuro Peninsula
7
20070716
6.8
37.56
138.61
17
9
The Niigataken Chuetsu-oki
8
20080614
7.2
39.03
140.88
8
10
The Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku
9
20110311
9
38.10
142.86
24
1
Tohuku
10
20110311
7.4
38.10
142.86
24
12
11
20110311
7.7
38.10
142.86
24
2
12
20110411
7
36.95
140.67
6
7
Hamadori and FukushimaBesides, in order to further ensure the quality of individual records at long-period range and reduce variations as much as possible, certain limited conditions were also implemented as follows: (a) recordings with peak ground acceleration PGA ≥ 1.5 cm/s2 were selected, and it is deemed that structures subjected to the recordings with such intensities may result in structural responses of interest. (b) In order to eliminate pulse-like motions, recording stations with hypocenter distances within 50 km were excluded [6, 12, 25]. (c) Horizontal histories were selected from recording instruments, which were either embedded in near surface layers or mounted in free fields, accounting for the presence of surface waves in close proximity to ground surface. (d) Selected histories should begin with either P or S waves in order to obtain sufficient duration containing surface waves. (e) Signal processing was employed by a band-pass filter between 0.05 and 25 Hz.It is possible that the multipeak envelope in acceleration-time histories results in a deviation in the determination of the parameters during the fitting process. This is due to the fact that the proposed model herein for envelope delays involves a two-piecewise function. For example, IBR001NS, Tohuku, M9, earthquake displays unusual envelope delays, as presented in Figure5, these are primarily attributed to the successive occurrences of large fault ruptures [26]; the proposed model fails to accurately predict corresponding envelope delays. Thus, the exclusion of this type of the motions from the training dataset was performed in order to reduce error.Figure 5
The record from IBR001NS, Tohuku, M9, earthquake shows that envelope delays coincide with the waveform in time series, resulting from three successive fault ruptures.
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(b)As a result, the number of records which meet the above requirements is 748. Note that in consideration of complicated mechanisms varying from events, it is possible that the number of records for each station is unevenly distributed.Furthermore, due to the lack of a quantitative definition of long-period motions, it is essential that we manually identified waveforms of the velocity-time series by means of visual inspection. A similar process was also carried out in works regarding identifications of pulse-like motions [13, 14, 27]. Accordingly, 264 records were manually classified as long-period motions against 484 non-long-period motions.


## 4. Classification of Long-Period Ground Motions

### 4.1. Criterion of Identification by Logistic Regression

This section is concerned with the establishment of a quantitative criterion, which aims to determine whether a given record is a long-period ground motion possessing sufficiently large amount of energy at frequencies below its corner frequency. Thus, two predictive variables including the energy ratio and the corner frequency are chosen, as they provide a quantitative assessment of long-period characteristics.The works [13, 28] pertaining to the quantitative classification of pulse-like motions suggest that logistic regression [29] has the potential to enable the classification of long-period motions if we choose variables associated with its long-period characteristics. In this regard, the training dataset was built in the form of the corner frequency and the energy ratio for each candidate record, after performing manual classifications for long-period and non-long-period motions, respectively. As the result of binary classification implemented by SPSS software, the predictive formula is given as follows:(11)predictor=11+e−−2.217−2.855fcorner+27.936Eratio.It is understood that this formula provides an estimation of the likelihood that a given record is a long-period motion on the basis of statistical theorem. Thus, the predictor takes values between 0 and 1 to assess the likelihood of a long-period ground motion. In order to obtain the coefficients of the formula, we assign a threshold value, from which regression classifications should reproduce manual classifications as much as possible [13]. In view of this, the value of 0.8 is determined such that the regression results pertaining to the non-long-period motions are consistent with the manual classifications.Consequently, a scatter plot of the predictive variables used for classifications is displayed in Figure6, and the corresponding predictors for identified long-period ground motions are listed in Table 2. The classification results from the predictor formula are listed in Table 3. Of the ground motions manually classified as long-period motions or non-long-period motions, 95.2% were classified in the same manner by the formula and 4.8% were misclassified. Furthermore, it is found that about 86.4% (228 out of 264) were labelled as long-period motions and approximately 100% (484 out of 484) remained classified as non-long-period motions. In view of the fact that two discrete classifications were determined by continuous predictors, it is possible that, in some areas, there is an occurrence of overlap between long-period ground motions and non-long-period ground motions. As inferred from Figure 6, the records whose initial long-period classifications were not reproduced by the formula are distributed along the border (the black line in Figure 6). However, we can assume from the plot that if a ground motion has a high energy ratio coupled with a low corner frequency, the likelihood of identifying a long-period motion increases significantly.Figure 6
Scatter plots of predictive variables of corner frequency and energy ratio for the classifications. Note that the representation of the false positive is manually classified as a long-period record but is identified as a non-long-period record by using the proposed method; the black line signifies the boundary to demarcate two discrete categories.Table 2
Records identified as long-period ground motions by using the proposed method.
Station
Corner frequency
Energy ratio
Predictor
Event index∗
Epicentral distance
Site
OSKH02NS
3.065265
0.962228
1
5
198.793
C
OSKH02EW
2.794872
0.951052
1
5
198.793
C
OSK003EW
3.7625
0.898807
0.999995
5
201.903
D
OSK003NS
3.584838
0.879794
0.999995
5
201.903
D
HYG022EW
0.807795
0.413461
0.999113
5
192.264
D
IKRH03NS
2.531998
0.413425
0.891252
6
213.833
D
IKRH03EW
3.498246
0.550984
0.960373
6
213.833
D
IKRH02EW
1.963153
0.376051
0.936049
6
237.185
E
HKD118EW
3.243775
0.759182
0.999941
6
251.084
D
HKD178EW
3.147187
0.861797
0.999997
6
254.792
D
HKD178NS
2.742523
0.84731
0.999999
6
254.792
D
AOM021EW
2.390755
0.538594
0.997536
6
241.254
D
IBUH05NS
2.542374
0.681667
0.99993
3
241.261
C
IBUH05EW
2.162977
0.700304
0.999986
3
241.261
C
IKRH03NS
4.135434
0.922407
0.999992
3
235.28
D
IKRH02NS
1.764912
0.75246
0.999999
3
255.304
E
IKRH02EW
7.294737
0.93734
0.958595
3
255.304
E
HKD105NS
1.004252
0.263015
0.905805
3
184.266
C
HKD129EW
4.537566
0.83678
0.999727
3
224.786
C
HKD129NS
1.916364
0.668818
0.999983
3
224.786
C
HKD130EW
2.148647
0.725926
0.999993
3
241.238
C
HKD130NS
3.236714
0.75985
0.999943
3
241.238
C
HKD120EW
4.230392
0.8097
0.999758
3
263.301
D
HKD120NS
4.664289
0.84516
0.999689
3
263.301
D
HKD122NS
3.154127
0.838083
0.999995
3
245.84
D
HKD178EW
5.886054
0.94734
0.999415
3
275.181
D
HKD178NS
3.367404
0.96083
1
3
275.181
D
HKD179NS
3.00411
0.868665
0.999999
3
264.276
D
HKD179EW
3.44
0.83873
0.999989
3
264.276
D
HKD181NS
1.596639
0.389663
0.98386
3
255.399
D
HKD182NS
2.082714
0.571818
0.999595
3
247.424
D
HKD180EW
3.898436
0.84414
0.999964
3
269.99
E
HKD084NS
2.37715
0.472772
0.985278
3
148.138
C
CHBH10NS
1.287612
0.92678
1
4
390.291
D
CHBH10EW
1.565669
0.98607
1
4
390.291
D
OSK007EW
2.648446
0.478623
0.973208
4
211.303
C
HYG022NS
2.635287
0.466258
0.963898
4
242.606
D
MIE003NS
2.712927
0.566378
0.997157
4
207.634
D
OSK006EW
2.212204
0.491778
0.994544
4
222.371
D
OSK006NS
3.239262
0.604658
0.995621
4
222.371
D
OSK008NS
1.272093
0.368782
0.988496
4
216.864
D
AIC003EW
1.721421
0.719596
0.999998
4
227.851
E
MYG005NS
2
0.770263
0.999999
11
229.204
D
NGN015EW
1.354651
0.693799
0.999998
11
153.839
D
MYG017EW
3.72093
0.768698
0.999822
11
185.336
E
ISK002EW
1.473684
0.320931
0.926977
11
140.925
E
ISK002NS
1.964912
0.397348
0.963508
11
140.925
E
FKS024EW
2.859375
0.539519
0.99091
11
112.735
D
FKS024NS
4.172507
0.601316
0.935164
11
112.735
D
IKRH02NS
2.131996
0.782818
0.999999
8
296.466
E
HKD126NS
2.673077
0.543681
0.995225
8
276.965
E
IBRH10EW
1.158154
0.315132
0.963736
9
202.274
E
TCG012NS
1.255624
0.482176
0.999533
9
176.825
C
SIT003EW
1.813519
0.880533
1
9
191.297
E
SIT003NS
2.043108
0.897758
1
9
191.297
E
SIT010NS
1.504256
0.590451
0.999954
9
205.371
E
NGN008EW
1.29054
0.675453
0.999998
9
132.08
C
NGN008NS
1.950835
0.676695
0.999985
9
132.08
C
NGN015EW
1.319473
0.623768
0.999989
9
173.498
D
NGN015NS
1.267456
0.700939
0.999999
9
173.498
D
ISK007EW
1.938776
0.725381
0.999996
9
156.195
E
ISK007NS
2.963141
0.693727
0.999834
9
156.195
E
FKS020EW
1.584589
0.504865
0.999366
9
132.531
E
FKS020NS
1.040875
0.26812
0.909001
9
132.531
E
YMT011NS
2.015038
0.548924
0.999367
9
160.191
D
YMT001EW
1.589615
0.707671
0.999998
10
93.3553
D
YMT001NS
2.768261
0.832274
0.999998
10
93.3553
D
MYG006EW
1.139153
0.342084
0.983491
10
50.2725
E
MYG006NS
1.312281
0.389482
0.992732
10
50.2725
E
YMT003NS
2.938272
0.473791
0.932772
10
99.3062
C
MYGH06NS
1.407018
0.28582
0.852034
10
51.3019
C
OSKH02NS
1.353383
0.690987
0.999998
2
557.279
C
OSKH02EW
2.451128
0.935847
1
2
557.279
C
CHB021EW
3.237864
0.714614
0.999797
2
181.927
C
CHB021NS
3.825243
0.721417
0.999103
2
181.927
C
CHB025EW
1.519298
0.663825
0.999994
2
173.869
C
CHB025NS
2.333333
0.704789
0.99998
2
173.869
C
KNG003NS
3.676923
0.710547
0.999204
2
172.478
C
KNG006EW
3.333333
0.575414
0.987145
2
172.1
C
KNG006NS
2.287719
0.555255
0.998846
2
172.1
C
KNG010EW
4.522807
0.756306
0.997524
2
193.271
C
KNG010NS
2.161403
0.674097
0.999971
2
193.271
C
CHB013NS
4.245614
0.667207
0.986625
2
115.667
D
CHB015NS
3.912281
0.723435
0.998913
2
146.725
D
CHB022EW
3.621053
0.548463
0.940853
2
155.056
D
CHB022NS
3.768421
0.590598
0.971338
2
155.056
D
CHB026EW
1.105263
0.387951
0.995787
2
122.644
D
CHB026NS
0.650485
0.235401
0.924283
2
122.644
D
KNG004EW
3.010648
0.519092
0.975612
2
183.284
D
KNG004NS
4.364912
0.606067
0.904846
2
183.284
D
SIT002EW
2.94386
0.564152
0.994167
2
168.982
D
SIT013NS
4.129825
0.657487
0.987382
2
165.948
D
TKY004NS
2.066667
0.445042
0.986815
2
176.351
D
TKY006EW
3.850187
0.61839
0.983144
2
165.415
D
TKY018EW
1.567884
0.444199
0.996717
2
140.538
D
TKY018NS
2.149701
0.503016
0.996658
2
140.538
D
TKY024EW
1.392982
0.410186
0.994857
2
133.002
D
TKY024NS
1.854539
0.435163
0.990482
2
133.002
D
TKY027NS
1.128727
0.345737
0.9855
2
132.309
D
CHB009EW
1.382456
0.409147
0.994862
2
118.77
E
CHB009NS
1.416979
0.302
0.897909
2
118.77
E
KNG001EW
2.636889
0.583577
0.998583
2
154.819
E
KNG001NS
2.691404
0.588471
0.998556
2
154.819
E
KNG013EW
4.695652
0.820325
0.999321
2
212.95
E
KNG013NS
3.89372
0.79685
0.999867
2
212.95
E
SIT008EW
1.891228
0.421265
0.984511
2
137.094
E
SIT011NS
1.179359
0.300462
0.943195
2
143.142
E
TKY005NS
3.670175
0.568949
0.96079
2
177.114
D
CHBH11NS
4.831579
0.861686
0.999684
1
395.179
C
CHBH11EW
7.110088
0.933592
0.972469
1
395.179
C
CHBH16NS
2.62807
0.71005
0.99996
1
418.631
C
CHBH16EW
2.887174
0.745081
0.999968
1
418.631
C
CHBH17NS
2.727915
0.685353
0.999893
1
395.73
C
IBUH02NS
3.220167
0.81326
0.999988
1
533.116
C
IBUH02EW
4.933333
0.838239
0.999188
1
533.116
C
IBUH05NS
1.854964
0.842197
1
1
511.566
C
IBUH05EW
2.187998
0.858736
1
1
511.566
C
OSKH02NS
2.223485
0.980296
1
1
770.997
C
OSKH02EW
1.386364
0.909078
1
1
770.997
C
CHBH10NS
3.05614
0.604811
0.997411
1
367.521
D
CHBH10EW
3.226368
0.592912
0.994149
1
367.521
D
CHBH12NS
3.393807
0.762432
0.999917
1
407.073
D
CHBH12EW
2.122807
0.682929
0.99998
1
407.073
D
IBRH20NS
1.870113
0.328554
0.835114
1
315.605
D
IBRH20EW
3.420712
0.570071
0.980967
1
315.605
D
IKRH03NS
1.536842
0.750714
0.999999
1
541.302
D
IKRH03EW
1.463603
0.727768
0.999999
1
541.302
D
SRCH07EW
4.312281
0.802902
0.99963
1
575.113
D
SRCH09NS
1.961404
0.595798
0.999853
1
557.48
D
IKRH02NS
2.080702
0.854545
1
1
577.359
E
IKRH02EW
1.735189
0.709653
0.999997
1
577.359
E
CHB021EW
2.188923
0.469424
0.990505
1
442.763
C
CHB021NS
2.308772
0.550751
0.99861
1
442.763
C
CHB025EW
2.649123
0.794705
0.999996
1
434.585
C
CHB025NS
3.470175
0.865441
0.999994
1
434.585
C
HKD105EW
1.101754
0.477341
0.999655
1
491.096
C
HKD105NS
1.889815
0.651899
0.999975
1
491.096
C
HKD123EW
1.473896
0.743897
0.999999
1
547.805
C
HKD124EW
2.431579
0.804728
0.999998
1
551.117
C
HKD124NS
1.50262
0.765818
1
1
551.117
C
HKD129EW
1.216549
0.62081
0.999991
1
514.31
C
HKD129NS
1.605898
0.75124
0.999999
1
514.31
C
HKD130EW
1.975566
0.855551
1
1
511.54
C
HKD130NS
1.757895
0.836844
1
1
511.54
C
CHB010NS
3.209241
0.497645
0.925727
1
335.212
D
CHB011EW
1.796491
0.494016
0.99843
1
348.212
D
CHB011NS
1.127699
0.331835
0.978826
1
348.212
D
CHB012EW
4.157895
0.637149
0.976144
1
360.028
D
CHB013EW
3.445614
0.763533
0.999906
1
374.717
D
CHB013NS
3.585965
0.793631
0.99994
1
374.717
D
CHB014EW
3.02807
0.696236
0.999814
1
384.514
D
CHB014NS
3.09761
0.674593
0.999584
1
384.514
D
CHB015EW
2.431765
0.779265
0.999997
1
401.04
D
CHB015NS
2.354386
0.744282
0.999993
1
401.04
D
CHB017EW
4.038596
0.800491
0.999819
1
398.387
D
CHB017NS
3.395686
0.768526
0.999929
1
398.387
D
CHB024EW
1.385965
0.416177
0.995732
1
369.581
D
CHB024NS
1.441063
0.496147
0.999463
1
369.581
D
CHB026EW
3.54386
0.753335
0.999835
1
381.673
D
CHB026NS
2.975439
0.692273
0.999821
1
381.673
D
CHB029EW
1.905263
0.56678
0.999719
1
374.398
D
CHB029NS
1.785965
0.559095
0.999752
1
374.398
D
HKD104EW
3.410909
0.778206
0.999944
1
501.917
D
HKD104NS
1.694107
0.70963
0.999997
1
501.917
D
HKD118EW
2.922807
0.910892
1
1
610.347
D
HKD118NS
3.133333
0.905301
0.999999
1
610.347
D
HKD120EW
2.266667
0.759994
0.999996
1
590.733
D
HKD120NS
1.975439
0.765163
0.999999
1
590.733
D
HKD122EW
1.49986
0.705809
0.999998
1
573.027
D
HKD122NS
2.038596
0.805595
0.999999
1
573.027
D
HKD125EW
1.308772
0.26605
0.814396
1
520.86
D
HKD127NS
1.708772
0.33937
0.915685
1
537.071
D
HKD178EW
2.124129
0.939097
1
1
578.05
D
HKD178NS
1.915789
0.91936
1
1
578.05
D
HKD179EW
2.013647
0.855838
1
1
579.845
D
HKD179NS
1.789474
0.844169
1
1
579.845
D
HKD181EW
2.2
0.670171
0.999964
1
567.66
D
HKD181NS
1.880702
0.690111
0.999992
1
567.66
D
HKD184NS
2.312281
0.585622
0.99947
1
531.287
D
IBR009EW
2.321031
0.455798
0.979957
1
352.031
D
MIE003EW
1.796491
0.83436
1
1
656.657
D
MIE003NS
2.42807
0.905403
1
1
656.657
D
TKY004NS
1.86751
0.369329
0.940968
1
412.767
D
TKY006EW
2.182456
0.466853
0.98999
1
400.819
D
TKY006NS
1.721864
0.365181
0.955586
1
400.819
D
TKY014EW
1.369994
0.397631
0.993172
1
380.016
D
TKY014NS
1.700919
0.47077
0.997713
1
380.016
D
TKY015NS
1.575439
0.475721
0.998607
1
378.158
D
TKY017EW
2.140351
0.719307
0.999992
1
384.974
D
TKY018EW
1.13859
0.322171
0.971598
1
384.221
D
TKY018NS
1.95614
0.483616
0.996693
1
384.221
D
TKY020EW
1.054625
0.316188
0.973534
1
383.554
D
TKY020NS
1.415732
0.427397
0.996601
1
383.554
D
TKY021EW
1.529825
0.392021
0.987468
1
381.146
D
TKY021NS
1.957161
0.533594
0.999177
1
381.146
D
TKY022EW
1.708164
0.489179
0.998603
1
382.628
D
TKY022NS
1.53564
0.428744
0.995396
1
382.628
D
TKY023EW
1.996195
0.643158
0.999957
1
377.804
D
TKY023NS
1.767858
0.564148
0.999796
1
377.804
D
TKY024EW
1.62807
0.405656
0.988652
1
374.258
D
TKY024NS
1.97193
0.470299
0.994991
1
374.258
D
TKY025EW
2.205766
0.385362
0.904739
1
374.153
D
TKY025NS
2.208975
0.450458
0.98305
1
374.153
D
TKY026EW
1.498246
0.419007
0.994573
1
379.731
D
TKY026NS
1.451875
0.411554
0.994148
1
379.731
D
TKY027EW
1.607018
0.429112
0.994418
1
376.218
D
TKY027NS
1.715789
0.56087
0.999807
1
376.218
D
AIC003EW
1.528369
0.85293
1
1
636.358
E
AIC003NS
2.014184
0.924111
1
1
636.358
E
CHB009EW
1.715142
0.471503
0.997667
1
370.281
E
CHB016EW
3.414035
0.813846
0.999979
1
381.548
E
CHB016NS
3.438596
0.835989
0.999988
1
381.548
E
CHB019EW
3.766378
0.816508
0.999947
1
428.331
E
CHB019NS
5.045614
0.898911
0.999794
1
428.331
E
CHB020EW
3.635088
0.828468
0.999974
1
413.209
E
CHB020NS
2.965497
0.755643
0.99997
1
413.209
E
HKD126EW
1.922319
0.503054
0.998253
1
502.843
E
HKD128EW
3.561224
0.673822
0.998406
1
525.162
E
HKD128NS
3.140351
0.697492
0.999752
1
525.162
E
SIT003EW
1.20185
0.377561
0.992603
1
360.375
E
SIT003NS
1.849123
0.546571
0.999579
1
360.375
E
SIT008EW
1.775439
0.498947
0.998711
1
363.587
E
SIT010EW
1.759152
0.476904
0.997725
1
375.649
E
YMT003NS
4.392982
0.759656
0.998442
1
276.008
C
SRCH08EW
8
0.960657
0.855687
1
606.193
D
SRCH09EW
2.803509
0.622858
0.999238
1
557.48
D
CHB012NS
2.908772
0.429311
0.813314
1
360.028
D
IBRH10EW
2.102102
0.424321
0.974303
7
110.921
E
∗Seismic information, including event index, for the selected records, refers to corresponding events listed in Table 1. Site classifications refer to National earthquake Hazards Reduction Program using v30.Table 3
Results for classification by using the proposed method.
Observation
Prediction
Non-long-period
Long‐period
Percentage
Non-long-period
484
0
100
Long‐period
36
228
86.4
Total percentage
—
—
95.2Figure7 shows the distribution of identified long-period ground motions with respect to site classifications and epicentral distances. Of the 228 records which are identified as the long-period ground motions by the predictor formula, the numbers for C, D, and E sites are 52, 129, and 47, respectively. In addition, the records with epicentral distances between 100 and 300 km are very available; however, beyond this range, records are mostly from Tohuku, M9, earthquake, with mostly clustered distances between 400 and 500 km. It is deemed that effects of long-period ground motions during megaearthquakes could not be ignored even if epicenter distances exceed 500 km [30]. In this regard, it is noteworthy that such long-period ground motions are not often incorporated into the design spectrum for high-rise buildings [31] because engineering designs are driven by the expected magnitude of the earthquake and the distance to near faults. Therefore, it is recommended that the influence of long-period motions triggered by large faults on long-period structures at distant sedimentary sites should be taken into serious consideration.Figure 7
Distribution of the identified long-period ground motions.


### 4.2. Analysis of Classification Results

In order to estimate the effectiveness of the proposed method for the identification of the long-period motions, the examinations pertaining to discrepancy are performed in some cases, in which a manual review of long-period motions was not reproduced by using the proposed method.The process pertaining to the truncation of a portion which is mainly composed of later-arriving amplitudes is detailed in the following, as is similar to the studies [5, 15, 32]. Firstly, in the context of phase dispersion, the portion of a record is truncated from its complete record later than its an arrival time tfcorner; besides, a filter with a high-cut frequency of fcorner, as suggested by Boore [15] used for processing strong motions, is employed in order to remove the components with frequencies larger than the corner frequency fcorner (in essence, this possibly removes body waves). The aforementioned two steps ensure that the later-arriving long-period amplitudes are in the presence of a truncated wave, thus allowing the examination whether the identified long-period motions are in accordance with the anticipated features.Figure8 shows six samples (positive records) of long-period motions which are identified by using the proposed method. Each sample has three subplots, including a velocity-time series, a velocity response spectrum, and envelope delay. Generally, it is seen that the truncated waves play a dominant role in determining broadband long-period characteristics of long-period ground motions as the whole, as each velocity spectrum of the truncated waves is consistent with the corresponding spectrum of the complete records over longer periods larger than 2 sec. Broadband long-period characteristics indicate that the later-arriving waves appear to be dispersive, accounting for multiple dominant periods in each velocity spectrum.Figure 8
Six samples of the positive records. To better understand the effects of later-arriving amplitudes on long-period properties, each record has three subplots, including velocity-time history, velocity response spectrum, and envelope delay. A truncated wave is obtained in the light of envelope delays (detailed operations noted in this text) and the complete record represents the original record without removing the truncated wave. The records from (a) OSKH02NS, Western Tottori, M7.3; (b) HKD178NS, Tokachi Aftershock, M7.1; (c) HKD181NS, Tokachi Mainshock, M8; (d) OSK008NS, Southeast of Kii peninsula, M7.4; (e) TKY024EW, Tohuku, M9; (f) CHB009EW, Tohuku, M9.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)On the contrary, five samples (false positive records) whose long-period characteristics were not reproduced by using the proposed method are illustrated in Figure9. In view of causation of the discrepancy, the five samples are separated into two groups. The first group contains the former three samples, as seen in Figures 9(a)–9(c). It is observed from their velocity spectrum that these records are almost characterized as the narrowband properties. This indicates that their long-period characteristics are dependent upon one or two dominant periods, in opposition to broadband long-period characteristics shown in Figure 8. In order to illustrate variations pertaining to mechanisms, the process of obtaining a truncated wave differs from that used in positive records (described above). Specifically, the portion of each record is truncated prior to its arrival time tfcorner, as is marked with red dashed lines in velocity-time series shown in the first three plots. It is found that the truncated waves, consisting of early arrival amplitudes, determine long-period characteristics comparable to the corresponding complete record in view of the entire velocity spectrum. This contrasts with the expected long-period motions whose long-period characteristics are controlled by later-arriving surface waves. Although these three samples share similar long-period characteristics with the positive records in terms of the velocity spectra, they exhibit variations in the mechanism. Thus, it is suggested that the proposed method is suitable for the identification of long-period motions whose broadband long-period characteristics are controlled by later-arriving long-period waves.Figure 9
Five samples of false positive records; the red dashed lines shown in velocity-time histories mark the truncated waves, which are determined on the basis of envelope delays. The former three records (a)–(c) were recorded from Tohuku aftershock, M7.7, and the latter two records (d, e) were from Tohuku, M9.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)Meanwhile, the latter two samples, CHB002EW and CHB028EW, from Tohuku, M9, earthquake, also show the same mechanism as the positive records, as later-arriving amplitudes make significant contributions to their long-period characteristics (red dashed lines) in Figures9(d) and 9(e). Furthermore, in order to investigate the influence of the energy ratio, the two positive records of CHB009EW and TKY024EW described above are involved in the following illustrations, considering that they present similar corner frequencies to those of the latter two samples.Then, Figure10 illustrates the comparisons of the Fourier amplitude spectrum in terms of truncated waves and complete records. The frequency domain in Figures 10(a)–10(d) is divided into low- and high-frequency band according to the corner frequency fcorner. It is clear that the complete records of CHB002EW and CHB028EW have two dominant frequencies, which are dispatched in low- and high-frequency bands, respectively. This gives rise to a relatively low ratio of energy carried by the later-arriving amplitudes to the total energy of the complete record. In contrast, both positive records have one dominant frequency which is incorporated into the low-frequency band, and there are apparent contributions of the low-frequency band to the total energy.Figure 10
Comparisons of the Fourier amplitude spectra in terms of the complete record and truncated wave; (a) and (b) false positive records from CHB002EW and CHB028EW; (c) and (d) positive records from CHB009EW and TKY024EW. The Fourier amplitudes for the complete record and truncated waves are represented with solid and dashed lines, respectively.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)It is concluded that the proposed method is in favor of the motions whose later-arriving long-period amplitudes provide significant contributions to the total energy in the frequency domain. It is possible that the use of a velocity trace as a surrogate for an acceleration trace in the calculation of the energy ratio may cause variations. This is due to the fact that the amplitudes at high frequencies in the acceleration trace would lose prominence, if their phases are not continuous when integrating to velocity traces. In light of this, the proposed method appears to bias towards the motions which have low energy ratio in the acceleration trace but present the narrowband long-period properties in the velocity trace. However, such motions can be easily identified in the form of the velocity spectrum with one dominant period.


## 4.1. Criterion of Identification by Logistic Regression

This section is concerned with the establishment of a quantitative criterion, which aims to determine whether a given record is a long-period ground motion possessing sufficiently large amount of energy at frequencies below its corner frequency. Thus, two predictive variables including the energy ratio and the corner frequency are chosen, as they provide a quantitative assessment of long-period characteristics.The works [13, 28] pertaining to the quantitative classification of pulse-like motions suggest that logistic regression [29] has the potential to enable the classification of long-period motions if we choose variables associated with its long-period characteristics. In this regard, the training dataset was built in the form of the corner frequency and the energy ratio for each candidate record, after performing manual classifications for long-period and non-long-period motions, respectively. As the result of binary classification implemented by SPSS software, the predictive formula is given as follows:(11)predictor=11+e−−2.217−2.855fcorner+27.936Eratio.It is understood that this formula provides an estimation of the likelihood that a given record is a long-period motion on the basis of statistical theorem. Thus, the predictor takes values between 0 and 1 to assess the likelihood of a long-period ground motion. In order to obtain the coefficients of the formula, we assign a threshold value, from which regression classifications should reproduce manual classifications as much as possible [13]. In view of this, the value of 0.8 is determined such that the regression results pertaining to the non-long-period motions are consistent with the manual classifications.Consequently, a scatter plot of the predictive variables used for classifications is displayed in Figure6, and the corresponding predictors for identified long-period ground motions are listed in Table 2. The classification results from the predictor formula are listed in Table 3. Of the ground motions manually classified as long-period motions or non-long-period motions, 95.2% were classified in the same manner by the formula and 4.8% were misclassified. Furthermore, it is found that about 86.4% (228 out of 264) were labelled as long-period motions and approximately 100% (484 out of 484) remained classified as non-long-period motions. In view of the fact that two discrete classifications were determined by continuous predictors, it is possible that, in some areas, there is an occurrence of overlap between long-period ground motions and non-long-period ground motions. As inferred from Figure 6, the records whose initial long-period classifications were not reproduced by the formula are distributed along the border (the black line in Figure 6). However, we can assume from the plot that if a ground motion has a high energy ratio coupled with a low corner frequency, the likelihood of identifying a long-period motion increases significantly.Figure 6
Scatter plots of predictive variables of corner frequency and energy ratio for the classifications. Note that the representation of the false positive is manually classified as a long-period record but is identified as a non-long-period record by using the proposed method; the black line signifies the boundary to demarcate two discrete categories.Table 2
Records identified as long-period ground motions by using the proposed method.
Station
Corner frequency
Energy ratio
Predictor
Event index∗
Epicentral distance
Site
OSKH02NS
3.065265
0.962228
1
5
198.793
C
OSKH02EW
2.794872
0.951052
1
5
198.793
C
OSK003EW
3.7625
0.898807
0.999995
5
201.903
D
OSK003NS
3.584838
0.879794
0.999995
5
201.903
D
HYG022EW
0.807795
0.413461
0.999113
5
192.264
D
IKRH03NS
2.531998
0.413425
0.891252
6
213.833
D
IKRH03EW
3.498246
0.550984
0.960373
6
213.833
D
IKRH02EW
1.963153
0.376051
0.936049
6
237.185
E
HKD118EW
3.243775
0.759182
0.999941
6
251.084
D
HKD178EW
3.147187
0.861797
0.999997
6
254.792
D
HKD178NS
2.742523
0.84731
0.999999
6
254.792
D
AOM021EW
2.390755
0.538594
0.997536
6
241.254
D
IBUH05NS
2.542374
0.681667
0.99993
3
241.261
C
IBUH05EW
2.162977
0.700304
0.999986
3
241.261
C
IKRH03NS
4.135434
0.922407
0.999992
3
235.28
D
IKRH02NS
1.764912
0.75246
0.999999
3
255.304
E
IKRH02EW
7.294737
0.93734
0.958595
3
255.304
E
HKD105NS
1.004252
0.263015
0.905805
3
184.266
C
HKD129EW
4.537566
0.83678
0.999727
3
224.786
C
HKD129NS
1.916364
0.668818
0.999983
3
224.786
C
HKD130EW
2.148647
0.725926
0.999993
3
241.238
C
HKD130NS
3.236714
0.75985
0.999943
3
241.238
C
HKD120EW
4.230392
0.8097
0.999758
3
263.301
D
HKD120NS
4.664289
0.84516
0.999689
3
263.301
D
HKD122NS
3.154127
0.838083
0.999995
3
245.84
D
HKD178EW
5.886054
0.94734
0.999415
3
275.181
D
HKD178NS
3.367404
0.96083
1
3
275.181
D
HKD179NS
3.00411
0.868665
0.999999
3
264.276
D
HKD179EW
3.44
0.83873
0.999989
3
264.276
D
HKD181NS
1.596639
0.389663
0.98386
3
255.399
D
HKD182NS
2.082714
0.571818
0.999595
3
247.424
D
HKD180EW
3.898436
0.84414
0.999964
3
269.99
E
HKD084NS
2.37715
0.472772
0.985278
3
148.138
C
CHBH10NS
1.287612
0.92678
1
4
390.291
D
CHBH10EW
1.565669
0.98607
1
4
390.291
D
OSK007EW
2.648446
0.478623
0.973208
4
211.303
C
HYG022NS
2.635287
0.466258
0.963898
4
242.606
D
MIE003NS
2.712927
0.566378
0.997157
4
207.634
D
OSK006EW
2.212204
0.491778
0.994544
4
222.371
D
OSK006NS
3.239262
0.604658
0.995621
4
222.371
D
OSK008NS
1.272093
0.368782
0.988496
4
216.864
D
AIC003EW
1.721421
0.719596
0.999998
4
227.851
E
MYG005NS
2
0.770263
0.999999
11
229.204
D
NGN015EW
1.354651
0.693799
0.999998
11
153.839
D
MYG017EW
3.72093
0.768698
0.999822
11
185.336
E
ISK002EW
1.473684
0.320931
0.926977
11
140.925
E
ISK002NS
1.964912
0.397348
0.963508
11
140.925
E
FKS024EW
2.859375
0.539519
0.99091
11
112.735
D
FKS024NS
4.172507
0.601316
0.935164
11
112.735
D
IKRH02NS
2.131996
0.782818
0.999999
8
296.466
E
HKD126NS
2.673077
0.543681
0.995225
8
276.965
E
IBRH10EW
1.158154
0.315132
0.963736
9
202.274
E
TCG012NS
1.255624
0.482176
0.999533
9
176.825
C
SIT003EW
1.813519
0.880533
1
9
191.297
E
SIT003NS
2.043108
0.897758
1
9
191.297
E
SIT010NS
1.504256
0.590451
0.999954
9
205.371
E
NGN008EW
1.29054
0.675453
0.999998
9
132.08
C
NGN008NS
1.950835
0.676695
0.999985
9
132.08
C
NGN015EW
1.319473
0.623768
0.999989
9
173.498
D
NGN015NS
1.267456
0.700939
0.999999
9
173.498
D
ISK007EW
1.938776
0.725381
0.999996
9
156.195
E
ISK007NS
2.963141
0.693727
0.999834
9
156.195
E
FKS020EW
1.584589
0.504865
0.999366
9
132.531
E
FKS020NS
1.040875
0.26812
0.909001
9
132.531
E
YMT011NS
2.015038
0.548924
0.999367
9
160.191
D
YMT001EW
1.589615
0.707671
0.999998
10
93.3553
D
YMT001NS
2.768261
0.832274
0.999998
10
93.3553
D
MYG006EW
1.139153
0.342084
0.983491
10
50.2725
E
MYG006NS
1.312281
0.389482
0.992732
10
50.2725
E
YMT003NS
2.938272
0.473791
0.932772
10
99.3062
C
MYGH06NS
1.407018
0.28582
0.852034
10
51.3019
C
OSKH02NS
1.353383
0.690987
0.999998
2
557.279
C
OSKH02EW
2.451128
0.935847
1
2
557.279
C
CHB021EW
3.237864
0.714614
0.999797
2
181.927
C
CHB021NS
3.825243
0.721417
0.999103
2
181.927
C
CHB025EW
1.519298
0.663825
0.999994
2
173.869
C
CHB025NS
2.333333
0.704789
0.99998
2
173.869
C
KNG003NS
3.676923
0.710547
0.999204
2
172.478
C
KNG006EW
3.333333
0.575414
0.987145
2
172.1
C
KNG006NS
2.287719
0.555255
0.998846
2
172.1
C
KNG010EW
4.522807
0.756306
0.997524
2
193.271
C
KNG010NS
2.161403
0.674097
0.999971
2
193.271
C
CHB013NS
4.245614
0.667207
0.986625
2
115.667
D
CHB015NS
3.912281
0.723435
0.998913
2
146.725
D
CHB022EW
3.621053
0.548463
0.940853
2
155.056
D
CHB022NS
3.768421
0.590598
0.971338
2
155.056
D
CHB026EW
1.105263
0.387951
0.995787
2
122.644
D
CHB026NS
0.650485
0.235401
0.924283
2
122.644
D
KNG004EW
3.010648
0.519092
0.975612
2
183.284
D
KNG004NS
4.364912
0.606067
0.904846
2
183.284
D
SIT002EW
2.94386
0.564152
0.994167
2
168.982
D
SIT013NS
4.129825
0.657487
0.987382
2
165.948
D
TKY004NS
2.066667
0.445042
0.986815
2
176.351
D
TKY006EW
3.850187
0.61839
0.983144
2
165.415
D
TKY018EW
1.567884
0.444199
0.996717
2
140.538
D
TKY018NS
2.149701
0.503016
0.996658
2
140.538
D
TKY024EW
1.392982
0.410186
0.994857
2
133.002
D
TKY024NS
1.854539
0.435163
0.990482
2
133.002
D
TKY027NS
1.128727
0.345737
0.9855
2
132.309
D
CHB009EW
1.382456
0.409147
0.994862
2
118.77
E
CHB009NS
1.416979
0.302
0.897909
2
118.77
E
KNG001EW
2.636889
0.583577
0.998583
2
154.819
E
KNG001NS
2.691404
0.588471
0.998556
2
154.819
E
KNG013EW
4.695652
0.820325
0.999321
2
212.95
E
KNG013NS
3.89372
0.79685
0.999867
2
212.95
E
SIT008EW
1.891228
0.421265
0.984511
2
137.094
E
SIT011NS
1.179359
0.300462
0.943195
2
143.142
E
TKY005NS
3.670175
0.568949
0.96079
2
177.114
D
CHBH11NS
4.831579
0.861686
0.999684
1
395.179
C
CHBH11EW
7.110088
0.933592
0.972469
1
395.179
C
CHBH16NS
2.62807
0.71005
0.99996
1
418.631
C
CHBH16EW
2.887174
0.745081
0.999968
1
418.631
C
CHBH17NS
2.727915
0.685353
0.999893
1
395.73
C
IBUH02NS
3.220167
0.81326
0.999988
1
533.116
C
IBUH02EW
4.933333
0.838239
0.999188
1
533.116
C
IBUH05NS
1.854964
0.842197
1
1
511.566
C
IBUH05EW
2.187998
0.858736
1
1
511.566
C
OSKH02NS
2.223485
0.980296
1
1
770.997
C
OSKH02EW
1.386364
0.909078
1
1
770.997
C
CHBH10NS
3.05614
0.604811
0.997411
1
367.521
D
CHBH10EW
3.226368
0.592912
0.994149
1
367.521
D
CHBH12NS
3.393807
0.762432
0.999917
1
407.073
D
CHBH12EW
2.122807
0.682929
0.99998
1
407.073
D
IBRH20NS
1.870113
0.328554
0.835114
1
315.605
D
IBRH20EW
3.420712
0.570071
0.980967
1
315.605
D
IKRH03NS
1.536842
0.750714
0.999999
1
541.302
D
IKRH03EW
1.463603
0.727768
0.999999
1
541.302
D
SRCH07EW
4.312281
0.802902
0.99963
1
575.113
D
SRCH09NS
1.961404
0.595798
0.999853
1
557.48
D
IKRH02NS
2.080702
0.854545
1
1
577.359
E
IKRH02EW
1.735189
0.709653
0.999997
1
577.359
E
CHB021EW
2.188923
0.469424
0.990505
1
442.763
C
CHB021NS
2.308772
0.550751
0.99861
1
442.763
C
CHB025EW
2.649123
0.794705
0.999996
1
434.585
C
CHB025NS
3.470175
0.865441
0.999994
1
434.585
C
HKD105EW
1.101754
0.477341
0.999655
1
491.096
C
HKD105NS
1.889815
0.651899
0.999975
1
491.096
C
HKD123EW
1.473896
0.743897
0.999999
1
547.805
C
HKD124EW
2.431579
0.804728
0.999998
1
551.117
C
HKD124NS
1.50262
0.765818
1
1
551.117
C
HKD129EW
1.216549
0.62081
0.999991
1
514.31
C
HKD129NS
1.605898
0.75124
0.999999
1
514.31
C
HKD130EW
1.975566
0.855551
1
1
511.54
C
HKD130NS
1.757895
0.836844
1
1
511.54
C
CHB010NS
3.209241
0.497645
0.925727
1
335.212
D
CHB011EW
1.796491
0.494016
0.99843
1
348.212
D
CHB011NS
1.127699
0.331835
0.978826
1
348.212
D
CHB012EW
4.157895
0.637149
0.976144
1
360.028
D
CHB013EW
3.445614
0.763533
0.999906
1
374.717
D
CHB013NS
3.585965
0.793631
0.99994
1
374.717
D
CHB014EW
3.02807
0.696236
0.999814
1
384.514
D
CHB014NS
3.09761
0.674593
0.999584
1
384.514
D
CHB015EW
2.431765
0.779265
0.999997
1
401.04
D
CHB015NS
2.354386
0.744282
0.999993
1
401.04
D
CHB017EW
4.038596
0.800491
0.999819
1
398.387
D
CHB017NS
3.395686
0.768526
0.999929
1
398.387
D
CHB024EW
1.385965
0.416177
0.995732
1
369.581
D
CHB024NS
1.441063
0.496147
0.999463
1
369.581
D
CHB026EW
3.54386
0.753335
0.999835
1
381.673
D
CHB026NS
2.975439
0.692273
0.999821
1
381.673
D
CHB029EW
1.905263
0.56678
0.999719
1
374.398
D
CHB029NS
1.785965
0.559095
0.999752
1
374.398
D
HKD104EW
3.410909
0.778206
0.999944
1
501.917
D
HKD104NS
1.694107
0.70963
0.999997
1
501.917
D
HKD118EW
2.922807
0.910892
1
1
610.347
D
HKD118NS
3.133333
0.905301
0.999999
1
610.347
D
HKD120EW
2.266667
0.759994
0.999996
1
590.733
D
HKD120NS
1.975439
0.765163
0.999999
1
590.733
D
HKD122EW
1.49986
0.705809
0.999998
1
573.027
D
HKD122NS
2.038596
0.805595
0.999999
1
573.027
D
HKD125EW
1.308772
0.26605
0.814396
1
520.86
D
HKD127NS
1.708772
0.33937
0.915685
1
537.071
D
HKD178EW
2.124129
0.939097
1
1
578.05
D
HKD178NS
1.915789
0.91936
1
1
578.05
D
HKD179EW
2.013647
0.855838
1
1
579.845
D
HKD179NS
1.789474
0.844169
1
1
579.845
D
HKD181EW
2.2
0.670171
0.999964
1
567.66
D
HKD181NS
1.880702
0.690111
0.999992
1
567.66
D
HKD184NS
2.312281
0.585622
0.99947
1
531.287
D
IBR009EW
2.321031
0.455798
0.979957
1
352.031
D
MIE003EW
1.796491
0.83436
1
1
656.657
D
MIE003NS
2.42807
0.905403
1
1
656.657
D
TKY004NS
1.86751
0.369329
0.940968
1
412.767
D
TKY006EW
2.182456
0.466853
0.98999
1
400.819
D
TKY006NS
1.721864
0.365181
0.955586
1
400.819
D
TKY014EW
1.369994
0.397631
0.993172
1
380.016
D
TKY014NS
1.700919
0.47077
0.997713
1
380.016
D
TKY015NS
1.575439
0.475721
0.998607
1
378.158
D
TKY017EW
2.140351
0.719307
0.999992
1
384.974
D
TKY018EW
1.13859
0.322171
0.971598
1
384.221
D
TKY018NS
1.95614
0.483616
0.996693
1
384.221
D
TKY020EW
1.054625
0.316188
0.973534
1
383.554
D
TKY020NS
1.415732
0.427397
0.996601
1
383.554
D
TKY021EW
1.529825
0.392021
0.987468
1
381.146
D
TKY021NS
1.957161
0.533594
0.999177
1
381.146
D
TKY022EW
1.708164
0.489179
0.998603
1
382.628
D
TKY022NS
1.53564
0.428744
0.995396
1
382.628
D
TKY023EW
1.996195
0.643158
0.999957
1
377.804
D
TKY023NS
1.767858
0.564148
0.999796
1
377.804
D
TKY024EW
1.62807
0.405656
0.988652
1
374.258
D
TKY024NS
1.97193
0.470299
0.994991
1
374.258
D
TKY025EW
2.205766
0.385362
0.904739
1
374.153
D
TKY025NS
2.208975
0.450458
0.98305
1
374.153
D
TKY026EW
1.498246
0.419007
0.994573
1
379.731
D
TKY026NS
1.451875
0.411554
0.994148
1
379.731
D
TKY027EW
1.607018
0.429112
0.994418
1
376.218
D
TKY027NS
1.715789
0.56087
0.999807
1
376.218
D
AIC003EW
1.528369
0.85293
1
1
636.358
E
AIC003NS
2.014184
0.924111
1
1
636.358
E
CHB009EW
1.715142
0.471503
0.997667
1
370.281
E
CHB016EW
3.414035
0.813846
0.999979
1
381.548
E
CHB016NS
3.438596
0.835989
0.999988
1
381.548
E
CHB019EW
3.766378
0.816508
0.999947
1
428.331
E
CHB019NS
5.045614
0.898911
0.999794
1
428.331
E
CHB020EW
3.635088
0.828468
0.999974
1
413.209
E
CHB020NS
2.965497
0.755643
0.99997
1
413.209
E
HKD126EW
1.922319
0.503054
0.998253
1
502.843
E
HKD128EW
3.561224
0.673822
0.998406
1
525.162
E
HKD128NS
3.140351
0.697492
0.999752
1
525.162
E
SIT003EW
1.20185
0.377561
0.992603
1
360.375
E
SIT003NS
1.849123
0.546571
0.999579
1
360.375
E
SIT008EW
1.775439
0.498947
0.998711
1
363.587
E
SIT010EW
1.759152
0.476904
0.997725
1
375.649
E
YMT003NS
4.392982
0.759656
0.998442
1
276.008
C
SRCH08EW
8
0.960657
0.855687
1
606.193
D
SRCH09EW
2.803509
0.622858
0.999238
1
557.48
D
CHB012NS
2.908772
0.429311
0.813314
1
360.028
D
IBRH10EW
2.102102
0.424321
0.974303
7
110.921
E
∗Seismic information, including event index, for the selected records, refers to corresponding events listed in Table 1. Site classifications refer to National earthquake Hazards Reduction Program using v30.Table 3
Results for classification by using the proposed method.
Observation
Prediction
Non-long-period
Long‐period
Percentage
Non-long-period
484
0
100
Long‐period
36
228
86.4
Total percentage
—
—
95.2Figure7 shows the distribution of identified long-period ground motions with respect to site classifications and epicentral distances. Of the 228 records which are identified as the long-period ground motions by the predictor formula, the numbers for C, D, and E sites are 52, 129, and 47, respectively. In addition, the records with epicentral distances between 100 and 300 km are very available; however, beyond this range, records are mostly from Tohuku, M9, earthquake, with mostly clustered distances between 400 and 500 km. It is deemed that effects of long-period ground motions during megaearthquakes could not be ignored even if epicenter distances exceed 500 km [30]. In this regard, it is noteworthy that such long-period ground motions are not often incorporated into the design spectrum for high-rise buildings [31] because engineering designs are driven by the expected magnitude of the earthquake and the distance to near faults. Therefore, it is recommended that the influence of long-period motions triggered by large faults on long-period structures at distant sedimentary sites should be taken into serious consideration.Figure 7
Distribution of the identified long-period ground motions.


## 4.2. Analysis of Classification Results

In order to estimate the effectiveness of the proposed method for the identification of the long-period motions, the examinations pertaining to discrepancy are performed in some cases, in which a manual review of long-period motions was not reproduced by using the proposed method.The process pertaining to the truncation of a portion which is mainly composed of later-arriving amplitudes is detailed in the following, as is similar to the studies [5, 15, 32]. Firstly, in the context of phase dispersion, the portion of a record is truncated from its complete record later than its an arrival time tfcorner; besides, a filter with a high-cut frequency of fcorner, as suggested by Boore [15] used for processing strong motions, is employed in order to remove the components with frequencies larger than the corner frequency fcorner (in essence, this possibly removes body waves). The aforementioned two steps ensure that the later-arriving long-period amplitudes are in the presence of a truncated wave, thus allowing the examination whether the identified long-period motions are in accordance with the anticipated features.Figure8 shows six samples (positive records) of long-period motions which are identified by using the proposed method. Each sample has three subplots, including a velocity-time series, a velocity response spectrum, and envelope delay. Generally, it is seen that the truncated waves play a dominant role in determining broadband long-period characteristics of long-period ground motions as the whole, as each velocity spectrum of the truncated waves is consistent with the corresponding spectrum of the complete records over longer periods larger than 2 sec. Broadband long-period characteristics indicate that the later-arriving waves appear to be dispersive, accounting for multiple dominant periods in each velocity spectrum.Figure 8
Six samples of the positive records. To better understand the effects of later-arriving amplitudes on long-period properties, each record has three subplots, including velocity-time history, velocity response spectrum, and envelope delay. A truncated wave is obtained in the light of envelope delays (detailed operations noted in this text) and the complete record represents the original record without removing the truncated wave. The records from (a) OSKH02NS, Western Tottori, M7.3; (b) HKD178NS, Tokachi Aftershock, M7.1; (c) HKD181NS, Tokachi Mainshock, M8; (d) OSK008NS, Southeast of Kii peninsula, M7.4; (e) TKY024EW, Tohuku, M9; (f) CHB009EW, Tohuku, M9.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)On the contrary, five samples (false positive records) whose long-period characteristics were not reproduced by using the proposed method are illustrated in Figure9. In view of causation of the discrepancy, the five samples are separated into two groups. The first group contains the former three samples, as seen in Figures 9(a)–9(c). It is observed from their velocity spectrum that these records are almost characterized as the narrowband properties. This indicates that their long-period characteristics are dependent upon one or two dominant periods, in opposition to broadband long-period characteristics shown in Figure 8. In order to illustrate variations pertaining to mechanisms, the process of obtaining a truncated wave differs from that used in positive records (described above). Specifically, the portion of each record is truncated prior to its arrival time tfcorner, as is marked with red dashed lines in velocity-time series shown in the first three plots. It is found that the truncated waves, consisting of early arrival amplitudes, determine long-period characteristics comparable to the corresponding complete record in view of the entire velocity spectrum. This contrasts with the expected long-period motions whose long-period characteristics are controlled by later-arriving surface waves. Although these three samples share similar long-period characteristics with the positive records in terms of the velocity spectra, they exhibit variations in the mechanism. Thus, it is suggested that the proposed method is suitable for the identification of long-period motions whose broadband long-period characteristics are controlled by later-arriving long-period waves.Figure 9
Five samples of false positive records; the red dashed lines shown in velocity-time histories mark the truncated waves, which are determined on the basis of envelope delays. The former three records (a)–(c) were recorded from Tohuku aftershock, M7.7, and the latter two records (d, e) were from Tohuku, M9.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)Meanwhile, the latter two samples, CHB002EW and CHB028EW, from Tohuku, M9, earthquake, also show the same mechanism as the positive records, as later-arriving amplitudes make significant contributions to their long-period characteristics (red dashed lines) in Figures9(d) and 9(e). Furthermore, in order to investigate the influence of the energy ratio, the two positive records of CHB009EW and TKY024EW described above are involved in the following illustrations, considering that they present similar corner frequencies to those of the latter two samples.Then, Figure10 illustrates the comparisons of the Fourier amplitude spectrum in terms of truncated waves and complete records. The frequency domain in Figures 10(a)–10(d) is divided into low- and high-frequency band according to the corner frequency fcorner. It is clear that the complete records of CHB002EW and CHB028EW have two dominant frequencies, which are dispatched in low- and high-frequency bands, respectively. This gives rise to a relatively low ratio of energy carried by the later-arriving amplitudes to the total energy of the complete record. In contrast, both positive records have one dominant frequency which is incorporated into the low-frequency band, and there are apparent contributions of the low-frequency band to the total energy.Figure 10
Comparisons of the Fourier amplitude spectra in terms of the complete record and truncated wave; (a) and (b) false positive records from CHB002EW and CHB028EW; (c) and (d) positive records from CHB009EW and TKY024EW. The Fourier amplitudes for the complete record and truncated waves are represented with solid and dashed lines, respectively.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)It is concluded that the proposed method is in favor of the motions whose later-arriving long-period amplitudes provide significant contributions to the total energy in the frequency domain. It is possible that the use of a velocity trace as a surrogate for an acceleration trace in the calculation of the energy ratio may cause variations. This is due to the fact that the amplitudes at high frequencies in the acceleration trace would lose prominence, if their phases are not continuous when integrating to velocity traces. In light of this, the proposed method appears to bias towards the motions which have low energy ratio in the acceleration trace but present the narrowband long-period properties in the velocity trace. However, such motions can be easily identified in the form of the velocity spectrum with one dominant period.


## 5. Significance of Long-Period Properties in Terms of Response Spectrum

It is documented that long-period motions exert significant influences on long-period structures in view of the response spectrum [30]. Thus, the selection of the long-period motions to conduct design and/or performance evaluation for the long-period structures is essential, as receives much attention from engineering communities [3, 33, 34]. In this regard, the significance of long-period characteristics is further examined in the context of the acceleration response spectrum.Figure11 exhibits the distribution of the predictors for 748 records used in the training dataset described in pervious section. It can be seen from the figure that the predictors of the identified long-period records are clustered above 0.8, while the remaining classifications, including the misclassified and non-long-period records, overlap in regions where the predictors mainly range between 0.2 and 0.8. Then, 748 records were divided into three groups in terms of the predictors: 228 identified long-period ground motions with predictors ≥0.8, 463 records with predictors <0.2, and 57 records with 0.2≤predictor<0.8, each of which is shown in Figure 11.Figure 11
Distribution of predictors.Then, a normalized acceleration response spectrum (β spectrum) with a 5% damping ratio is defined as an equation of Sa/PGA (Sa represents values of an acceleration response spectrum; PGA represents the peak value of an acceleration), by which the characteristics of frequency content are able to be reflected by excluding variations of the intensities of the ground motions. As a consequence, the mean β response spectrum for each group is illustrated in Figure 12. In general, with an increase of predictors, the significance of the long-period characteristics becomes increasingly obvious. The mean β response spectrum of the group with predictors above 0.8 presents overwhelming long-period characteristics among the three groups, and its ordinates at longer periods are considerably greater than those of other groups, with the exclusion of the periods shorter than 1 sec.Figure 12
Mean normalized acceleration response spectra with respect to predictors.Besides, comparisons of the meanβ response spectrum with respect to site classifications are carried out in long-period and non-long-period classifications, respectively, and corresponding results are displayed in Figure 13. As observed from Figure 13(a), local site effects on the identified long-period ground motions are not expected to comply with the rule that the amplifications are closely correlated with site conditions referring to v30 (average shear-wave velocity of a profile up to 30 m), except for short periods (≤1.5 sec) during which the E sites are larger than both C and D sites. This irregular trend pertaining to site classifications is consistent with the conclusions suggested by Joyner [20] and Abraham [35], as amplifications of long-period motions over long‐periods (≥1 sec) are mainly dependent upon nonlinear responses caused by irregular geological structures (such as basins). In contrast, Figure 13(b) indicates that the trend for β response spectra of the identified non-long-period motions is correlated with local site effects, as the values of E sites are significantly greater than those of C and D sites from the middle to long-period range. Moreover, it should be noted that the values of the long-period motions are systematically greater than those of non-long-period motions, irrespective of site conditions, accounting for the significance of long-period characteristics of the identified long-period motions.Figure 13
Mean normalized acceleration response spectra for long-period (a) and non-long-period (b) ground motions in terms of site classifications.
(a)
(b)As illustrated in Figure13, the variations of long-period characteristics with respect to the predictors are presented, and the proposed method has the potential to provide an estimation of long-period characteristics. Furthermore, the influence of local site effects on amplifications of long-period ground motions differs from that of non-long-period ground motions, suggesting that the amplifications according to classification sites are not applicable to long-period motions triggered by geological sites.Therefore, amplifications resulting from distant basins should be incorporated into possible seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) in order to assess performance of long-period structures, considering the fact that the significance of long-period characteristics derived from non-long-period motions is not comparable to that derived from long-period motions, especially over longer periods.


## 6. Conclusion and Discussion

This paper proposes a method for quantitatively identifying far-field long-period ground motions. Envelope delays are obtained from the calculation of an acceleration-time history by means of phase derivatives, wherein the relative arrival times in the envelope of acceleration series are dependent on frequencies.Due to the amplification of surface waves, the later-arriving components with low frequencies carry the large energy value relative to the total energy of a ground motion. In this regard, the main principle pertaining to the calibration of long-period ground motions is developed with the aid of the predictive variables: (1) the combination of the corner frequencyfcorner with corresponding arrival time tfcorner determines the later-arriving long-period waves in terms of frequency and time domains; (2) the energy ratio Eratio is regarded as a quantitative index for energy in order to estimate the intensity of later-arriving long-period waves relative to the total energy. For the purpose of separating the long-period ground motions from non-long-period ground motions, the threshold value of 0.8 as the result of logistic regression is proposed.The analysis of the classification results associated with positive and false positive records provides insight into the effectiveness of the proposed method, by which the differentiation of long-period motions whose long-period properties are determined by the later-arriving amplitudes from those determined by early long-period amplitudes is attained.Furthermore, comparisons of meanβ response spectra with respect to the predictors indicate that the long-period properties are consistent with the predictor-based groups, suggesting that the predictors are suitable for the estimation of the long-period properties. In addition, preliminary investigations relating local site effects to long-period properties for long-period and non-long-period motions, respectively, suggest that amplifications of long-period motions, resulting from distant basins, are independent of site classifications based on site properties at shallow depths. This means that such motions should be incorporated into a set of ground motions selected for design and/or performance assessment of long-period structures, as long-period ground motions resulting from distant sedimentary sites are not often considered in the application of PSHA.It is noteworthy that the proposed method specializes in the determination of broadband long-period properties, which are presented in the form of later-arriving long-period amplitudes. However, the method may lose efficiency in determining the motions whose long-period properties are in the form of narrowband frequencies. Alternatively, such records can be detected by inspecting their velocity response spectrum with one dominant period.



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