Correction to: Ground motion prediction equations for Algeria and surrounding region using site classification based H/V spectral ratio

1 Correction to: Bull Earthquake Eng https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-018-0310-3

In the third sentence of section 1 Introduction, “(Bracene et al. 2003)” should be replaced by “(Peláez et al. 2005)”. The same substitution should be made in the caption to Fig. 1a. For the readers’ convenience the relevant paragraph, figure, caption and reference are given below.

2 Introduction

The northern Algeria is located in the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary. It is among the most active seismogenic areas in the western Mediterranean region. From north to south, northern Algeria is divided into four main structural domains (Peláez et al. 2005). These geological features, related to interplate processes, are: the Tell Atlas or Tell-Rift system, the High Plateaus, the Sahara Atlas or Atlas Mountains system, and the Sahara Platform (Fig. 1a). The seismicity distribution, which is strong to moderate in the northern part, to low in the southern part, is represented by four (04) seismic areas (RPA 2003) (Fig. 1b), seismic zones IIb and III for moderate to strong activity and I and IIa for weak to moderate ones. During the last three decades, northern Algeria experienced several moderate-to-strong earthquakes; two of them were strongly destructive (Fig. 1a). The 1980 El Asnam earthquake (M7.3) claimed over 2700 lives and destroyed about 60,000 housings, and Boumerdes May 21 (M6.8) caused considerable damages and claimed over 2300 lives (Laouami et al. 2006; Laouami and Slimani 2012).

Fig. 1

a Seismicity of Algeria since 1700, and regional tectonic setting (Peláez et al. 2005), yellow and red asterisks show, respectively, the destructive M_s 7.3 El Asnam and M_w 6.8 Boumerdes earthquakes; and b Seismic zonation of Algeria (RPA 2003)