Artificial neural network methodology for three-dimensional seismic parameters attenuation analysis

With the accumulating of the strong earthquakes records, it becomes practicable to achieve the more accurate attenuation relationships. Based on the seismic records of West American, the Radial Basis Function (RBF) and Back Propagation (BP) artificial neural networks model are respectively constructed for three-dimensional seismic parameters attenuation relationship. The RBF model is nice fitting for the training data, although it has great errors on other tested points. While the BP model is not good than the RBF model for the training data, it possesses a better consecutive property in the whole area. It is a proper neural network model for the problem. After training with the selected records, the Neural Networks (NN) shows a good fitting with the training records. And it is easy to construct three-dimensional model to predict the attenuation relationship. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the presented methodology, the contrast is discussed for the results of the BP model and three typical traditional attenuation formulae.