Hello,
I need a small clarification on artificial and synthetic accelerograms. To my knowledge, synthetic accelerograms are those which can be derived from seismological parameters and artificial accelerograms those which can be derived from spectrum compatible. If my explanation is wrong, kindly correct me.
Another clarification on synthetic accelerogram is, why do we multiply source, path and site terms in generating synthetic accelerogram. To my knowledge, source is related to magnitude, path is related to hypocentral distance and site is related to local geology. If my explanation is wrong, kindly provide detailed information.