Determining Generic Velocity and Density Models for Crustal Amplification Calculations, with an Update of the Generic Site Amplification for

Abstract This short note contains two contributions related to deriving depth‐dependent velocity and density models for use in computing generic crustal amplifications. The first contribution is a method for interpolating two velocity profiles to obtain a third profile with a time‐averaged velocity to depth Z that is equal to a specified value (e.g., for shear‐wave velocity V S , for Z =30  m, in which the subscript S has been added to indicate that the average is for shear‐wave velocities). The second contribution is a procedure for obtaining densities from V S . The first contribution is used to extend and revise the Boore and Joyner (1997) generic rock V S model, for which , to a model with the more common . This new model is then used with the densities from the second contribution to compute crustal amplifications for a generic site with .

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