| Abstract | Seismic hazard and Earthquake engineering being a core area in structural engineering needs to be explored even further to provide a clear understanding for the engineers and experts to enhance their knowledge in designs. Prediction of seismic hazards play a vital role in design to predict and estimate the damage that could be induced upon the structure, which with the clear understating and advanced knowledge could provide additional safety on lives and improve the efficiency on structures designed. Earthquake simulations and Seismic models help understand the propagation of seismic waves, ground motion characteristics and also could be used as substitute to recorded data. Among many alternatives to simulate earthquakes, deterministic earthquake simulations and physics based simulations have gained significant interest of engineers and researchers. These simulations use many different approaches such as Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Difference Method (FDM), Spectral Method etc. (e.g., (Frankel & Videl, 1992); (Olsen, et al., 1995), (Graves, 1996), (Bao, et al., 1998), (Seriani, 1998), (Kaser, et al., 2007)). Due to the growth in high-performance computing facilities in the modern days, the application of these numerical methods have progressed substantially and improved large-scale three dimensional earthquake simulations and rupture dynamics. (e.g., (Komatitsch, et al., 2004), (Aagaard, et al., 2007), (Graves, 1996), (Olsen, et al., 2009), (Bielak, et al., 2010)) This study is conducted to construct a Seismic Attenuation Model so that the impact of long distance earthquakes amplified by the soft soil basin can be predicted. The study focuses on building a framework and validating a model that can support the model. First the bedrock simulation was validated and then equivalent linear analysis conducted at station locations in order to obtain site characteristics. |