Abstract
Macroseismic intensity data are an important source to learn from historical earthquakes. Nevertheless, this data needs to be converted into more suitable intensity measures to be used in risk analyses, as well as in design practice. To this purpose, in this paper, correlations between macroseismic scales and ground motion parameters have been derived. Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA), Peak Ground Velocity (PGV) and Housner Intensity (IH) as instrumental measures, and European Macroseismic Scale (EMS-98) and Mercalli-Cancani-Sieberg (MCS) as macroseismic measures, have been considered. 179 ground-motion records belonging to 32 earthquake events occurred in Italy in the last 40 years have been selected, provided that for each record, macroseismic intensity in terms of either EMS-98 or MCS or both were also available. Statistical analyses have been carried out to derive both direct (i.e. macroseismic vs instrumental intensity) and inverse (instrumental vs macroseismic intensity) relationships. Results obtained from the proposed relationships have been analyzed and compared with some of the most prominent results available in the technical literature.
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