determination of body waves quality factor in the nw iran, with power spectrum analysis

As one of the ways to identify seismological characteristics in the region, determining the quality factor of seismic mapping can providevaluable information about inside the earth. this study investigates local site effects as a function of frequency and presents a newrelationship for determining the quality factor in northwestern iran with regard to local site effects. these sites are selected so that theirsignal-to-noise ratio (snr) is greater than 5. this study uses the short-time fourier transform (stft) method in which a fixed timewindow and its multiplication by a given signal are used. the coefficients resulting from this transformation are considered as waveamplitudes at any frequency by performing a short-time fourier transform. the amount of power spectrum decay is used instead of theground displacement amplitude decay. local site effects and kappa, a function of the path and site effects, were investigated and becamethe basis of spectral decay calculations. the results of this study were compared with those of the previous study based on conventionaland classical methods and the accuracy of the methods was evaluated using standard deviation (sd) values. finally, the quality factorequations were obtained for the north-south component (𝑁 − 𝑆) as q(f) = (78 ± 2)𝑓(1.37±0.02), for the east-west component (e-w)as q(f) = (62 ± 2)𝑓(1.5±0.03), and for the vertical component (𝑍) as q(f) = (87 ± 2)𝑓(1.29±0.03).