简介：Near-fieldstronggroundmotionsareusefulforengineeringseismologystudiesandseismicdesign,butdenseobservationnetworksofdamagingearthquakesarestillrare.Inthisstudy,basedonthestrong-motiondatafromtheMw6.6Lushanearthquake,thegroundmotionparametersindifferentspatialregionsaresystematicallyanalyzed,andthecontributionsfromdifferenteffects,likethehanging-walleffect,directivityeffect,andattenuationeffectareseparatedtotheextentpossible.DifferentengineeringparametersfromtheobservedgroundmotionsarecomparedwiththelocaldesignresponsespectraandanewattenuationrelationofWesternChina.Generalresultsindicatethatthehighfrequencygroundmotion,likethepeakgroundacceleration,ontwosidesofthefaultplaneissensitivetothehanging-walleffect,whereasthelowfrequencygroundmotion,likethelongperiodspectralacceleration,intherupturepropagationdirectionisaffectedbythedirectivityeffect.Moreover,althoughtheMw6.6Lushanearthquakeisnotalargemagnitudeevent,thespatialdifferenceofgroundmotionisstillobvious;thus,forathrustfaultingearthquake,inadditiontothehangingeffect,thedirectivityeffectshouldalsobeconsidered.

简介：TemporalchangesinsiteeffectsareobtainedusingtheHVSR(horizontal-to-verticalspectralratio)methodandstrongmotionrecordsaftertheMw7.6Chi-Chiearthquake,Taiwan.Seismicdatarecordedbetween1995and2010areused,comprising3,708datafrom15stationsadjacenttotheChelungpufault.Temporalfluctuationsaredeterminedbyanalyzingthesiteeffectvariationusingatime–frequencyvariation(TFV)diagrambasedontheseseismicdata.Stationsadjacenttothefaultshowsignificantdisturbancesintheresonancefrequencyat16–26Hz.StationTCU129showsa40%dropinfundamentalfrequencyafterthemainshock,andagradualreturntotheoriginalstateovernineyears.Forstationslocatedfartherfromthefaultzone,suddenchangesintectonicstressplayadominantroleintemporalchangestotheHVSR.Animpactanalysisofthedirectionalfactorconfirmsourfindingthattheproximityofthefaulttoseismicstationshasthemostinfluenceondata.