'Ground motions' presentation slideshows

Empirical Ground Motion Prediction Equations

Empirical Ground Motion Prediction Equations. Introduction to Strong Motion Seismology Day 2, Lecture 3 Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar Tuesday, 29 January 2013. Empirical Specification of Ground Motions. Ground-motion prediction equations

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American Samoa Seismic Hazard Maps

American Samoa Seismic Hazard Maps. Mark D. Petersen, Stephen C. Harmsen, Kenneth S. Rukstales, Charles S. Mueller, Daniel E. McNamara, Nicolas Luco , and Melanie Walling . American Samoa. Formed by migration of tectonic plate over hot spot 2 to 28 Ma Pacific Plate motion GPS vector

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NEES-Soft: Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings

NEES-Soft: Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings. John W. van de Lindt , University of Alabama Michael D. Symans , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Xiaoyun Shao, Western Michigan University Weichiang Pang, Clemson University Mikhail Gershfeld , Cal Poly Pomona.

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Seismic Fragility Assessment of SCED Brace System us ing Hybrid Simulation

Seismic Fragility Assessment of SCED Brace System us ing Hybrid Simulation. Oh-Sung Kwon Assistant Professor Viswanath Kammula MASc student Constantin Christopoulos Associate Professor Jeff Erochko PhD student. July 12, 2012. Outline. Seismic Fragility Function

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James N. Brune John G. Anderson Nevada Seismological Laboratory University of Nevada, Reno

Precarious Rocks, Shattered Rock, and Seismic Hazard at Low Probabilities for Yucca Mountain Presentation to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board February 24, 2003 Las Vegas, Nevada. James N. Brune John G. Anderson Nevada Seismological Laboratory University of Nevada, Reno.

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Charlie Kircher Kircher & Associates Project Director January 20, 2010

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Translating the 2009 Provisions into ASCE 7-10: Ground Motions Maps

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NGA-East: National Seismic Hazard Mapping Perspective

NGA-East: National Seismic Hazard Mapping Perspective. Mark Petersen USGS Golden, CO. New Madrid Ground Motions. Tennessee: Lowered building codes

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Ground Vibrations and Air Blasts: Causes, Effects and Abatement.

Ground Vibrations and Air Blasts: Causes, Effects and Abatement. Rupture Radius Zones. Illustration of Seismic and Air Waves. Areas of Concern when Blasting. Transmission of Seismic Waves. The transmission of seismic waves is affected by Travel distance Ground attenuation

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Katie Wooddell 10/ 25/ 2011

Classifying Earthquakes in the NGAW2 Catalog A Methodology for Classifying Earthquakes for Ground Motion Estimation. Katie Wooddell 10/ 25/ 2011. NGA Ground Motion Observations. Median ground motions from aftershocks are systematically lower than median ground motions from mainshocks

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D. McCallen Yucca Mountain and Repository Science Program Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Evaluating Fragile Blades and Filaments in the Lithophysae for Constraints on Long Return Period Earthquake Ground Motions at Yucca Mountain Nevada August 2004 Workshop on Extreme Ground Motions at Yucca Mountain USGS, Menlo Park Ca. J. Whelan Environmental Science Team

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Potential Topics for Issues Team Study: Ground Motion Selection and Scaling for Response History Analysis Curt B. Haselton, PhD, PE California State University, Chico Presented on Behalf of the PEER Ground Motion Selection and Modification Program (PEER GMSM).

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EARTHQUAKES

EARTHQUAKES. BY:MADYSON KENNY. What is an Earthquake?.

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Use of elastic & inelastic response spectra properties to validate simulated ground motions

Use of elastic & inelastic response spectra properties to validate simulated ground motions. Ground motions for illustration. Illustrative results are presented for several sets of Puente Hills broadband simulations at 648 sites in the Los Angeles region (Graves and Somerville 2006).

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Tall Buildings Initiative

Tall Buildings Initiative. 3 year initiative to advance design of tall buildings Main participants PEER, SCEC, USGS, FEMA, CSMIP, Pankow Foundation, SFDBI, LADBS, OES, CSSC, ATC, LATBSDC, SEAOC, SEAONC Project Management Committee (T-PAC) J. Moehle, Y. Bozorgnia

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Modeling of ground motions and stress transfer caused by the

3.8 cm/y. 5.2 cm/y. 2.8cm/y. Great Sumatra Fault. Mentawi Fault. 6.5 cm/year. Hybrid ground motion simulation methodology The December 26, 2004 earthquake has been modeled using a hybrid method for simulating ground motions due to a finite-extent earthquake source:

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