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The Arias intensity (IA) is a measure of the strength of a ground motion. It determines the intensity of shaking by measuring the acceleration of transient seismic waves. It has been found to be a fairly reliable parameter to describe earthquake shaking necessary to trigger landslides. It was proposed by Chilean engineer Arturo Arias in 1970.

It is defined as the time-integral of the square of the ground acceleration:

I A = π 2 g 0 T d a ( t ) 2 d t {\displaystyle I_{A}={\frac {\pi }{2g}}\int _{0}^{T_{d}}a(t)^{2}dt} (m/s)

where g is the acceleration due to gravity and Td is the duration of signal above threshold. Theoretically the integral should be infinite.

The Arias Intensity could also alternatively be defined as the sum of all the squared acceleration values from seismic strong motion records.

References

  1. "New predictive equations for Arias intensity from crustal earthquakes in New Zea" (PDF). Journal of Seismology. 13 (1): 31–52. Bibcode:2009JSeis..13...31S. doi:10.1007/s10950-008-9114-2.
  2. ^ "7. Seismic landslide hazard zonation". Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente. 2006-09-29. Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  3. Wolfgang A. Lenhardt (2007). "Earthquake-Triggered Landslides in Austria – Dobratsch Revisited" (PDF). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-31.
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