This poster presents a ground motion simulation validation study in New Zealand considering small magnitude earthquakes (3.5≤Mw≤5.0). 498 earthquakes were modelled as point sources with 5350 ground motion recordings across 293 stations, shown in Figure 1. This study utilized a ‘Modified’ Graves and Pitarka (2010,2015) hybrid broadband ground motion simulation methodology but also compares results with the ‘Standard’ simulation methodology without modifications. The Modified methodology employs the Boore and Thomson (2014) high frequency (HF) path duration model and does not apply empirical Vs30-based site amplification to the low frequency (LF) component of the simulation, based on work by Lee et al. (2019).