TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lanzano, Giovanni
A1  - Sgobba, Sara
A1  - Luzi, Lucia
A1  - Puglia, Rodolfo
A1  - Pacor, Francesca
A1  - Felicetta, Chiara
A1  - Cotton, Fabrice Pierre
A1  - Bindi, Dino
T1  - The pan-European Engineering Strong Motion (ESM) flatfile
BT  - compilation criteria and data statistics
JF  - Bulletin of earthquake engineering : official publication of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering
N2  - The Engineering Strong-Motion (ESM) flatfile is a parametric table which contains verified and reliable metadata and intensity measures of manually processed waveforms included in the ESM database. The flatfile has been developed within the Seismology Thematic Core Service of EPOS-IP (European Plate Observing System Implementation Phase) and it is disseminated throughout a web portal for research and technical purposes. The adopted criteria for flatfile compilation aim to collect strong motion data and related metadata in a uniform, updated, traceable and quality-checked way to develop Ground Motion Models (GMMs) for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) and engineering applications. In this paper, we present the characteristics of ESM flatfile in terms of recording, event and station distributions, and we discuss the most relevant features of the Intensity Measures (IMs) of engineering interest included in the table. The dataset for flatfile compilation includes 23,014 recordings from 2179 earthquakes and 2080 stations from Europe and Middle-East. The events are characterized by magnitudes in the range 3.5-8.0 and refer to different tectonics regimes, such as shallow active crustal and subduction zones. Intensity measures include peak and integral parameters and duration of each waveform. The spectral amplitudes of the (5% damping) acceleration and displacement response are provided for 36 periods, in the interval 0.01-10 s, as well as the 103 amplitudes of the Fourier spectrum for the frequency range 0.04-50 Hz. Several statistics are shown with reference to the most significant metadata for GMMs calibrations, such as moment magnitude, focal depth, several distance metrics, style of faulting and parameters for site characterization. Furthermore, we also compare and explain the most relevant differences between the metadata of ESM flatfile with those provided by the previous flatfile derived in RESORCE (Reference Database for Seismic Ground Motion in Europe) project.
KW  - Strong motion records
KW  - Flatfile
KW  - Metadata
KW  - GMMs
KW  - Engineering Strong Motion database
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-018-0480-z
SN  - 1570-761X
SN  - 1573-1456
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SP  - 561
EP  - 582
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -