Appendix I

Thumbnail image of Development and Application of Realistic Earthquake Time Histories Compatible with Multiple-Damping Design Spectra article first page

This paper describes the development and application of a new method for generation of realistic synthetic earthquake time histories compatible with multiple-damping design spectra. The effectiveness of this new method is demonstrated by applying it to adjust actual earthquake time histories to match the design spectra while minimizing perturbations on their characteristics. The paper also demonstrates that seismic responses of structures based on such spectrum-compatible realistic time histories are consistent with those obtained from analyses using an ensemble of time histories.

Thumbnail image of 1857 Slip on the San Andreas Fault Southeast of Cholame, California journal article cover page

Sieh and Jahns (1984) forecasted that the next moderate Parkfield earthquake might trigger a major earthquake along a fault segment greater than 30 km long southeast of Cholame. Their forecast assumed (1) the slip was 3–4 m in 1857 and characteristic of the segment; (2) a slip rate of 3.4 cm/yr; and (3) full strain release in earthquakes.

Thumbnail image of Alternatives in Evaluating Soil- and Rock-Site Seismic Hazard letter cover page

Seismic design requirements for critical facilities normally require the development and application of a uniform hazard spectrum having a specified return period. For a soil site, hazard results are often evaluated for bedrock level and soil surface.

Thumbnail image of A Methodology to Estimate Site-Specific Seismic Hazard for Critical Facilities on Soil or Soft-Rock Sites conference proceedings cover sheet

Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessments (PSHAs) and associated seismic design bases are critically dependent upon the local geological and geotechnical model. For reactor and critical non-reactor facilities on soil or softrock sites exhibiting strain-dependent behavior, estimates of site response can change significantly as site measurements and inferred structure evolve.

Thumbnail image of Three-Point Approximations for Continuous Random Variables journal article cover page

This paper compares a number of approximations used to estimate means and variances of continuous random variables and/ or to serve as substitutes for the probability distributions of such variables, with particular emphasis on three-point approximations.

Thumbnail image of Seismic Response of Horizontal Soil Layers first page

In many cases the ground motions developed near the surface of a soil deposit during an earthquake may be attributed primarily to the upward propagation of shear waves from an underlying rock formation. If the ground surface, the rock surface, or the boundaries between different soil layers are inclined, analyses of the response of the soil deposit can be made only by techniques such as the finite-element method.

Thumbnail image of Surficial Geology of the Superstition Mountain Piedmont Area, Northern Pinal and Eastern Maricopa Counties, Arizona report cover

One of the fastest growing areas of Arizona is the eastern part of the Phoenix Basin near the communities of Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Apache Junction. Much of this development has occurred on the piedmont near the base of the mountains where little of the surficial geology has ever been mapped. Because this area of the Phoenix Basin will continue to grow in the future, there is a need to understand the nature and distribution of surficial deposits.

Thumbnail image of A Moment Magnitude Scale journal article cover page

It is well known that the most widely used earthquake magnitude scales, ML (local magnitude), M, (surface wave magnitude), and mb (body wave magnitude), are, in principle, unbounded from above. It is equally well known that, in fact, they are so bounded, and the reasons for this are understood in terms of the operation of finite bandwidth instrumentation on the magnitude-dependent frequency characteristics of the elastic radiation excited by earthquake sources.

Thumbnail image of A Bilinear Source-Scaling Model for M–log A Observations of Continental Earthquakes journal article cover page

The Wells and Coppersmith (1994) M–log A data set for continental earthquakes (where M is moment magnitude and A is fault area) and the regression lines derived from it are widely used in seismic hazard analysis for estimating M, given A. Their relations are well determined, whether for the full data set of all mechanism types or for the subset of strike-slip earthquakes.

Thumbnail image of Paleoseismic Evidence of Clustered Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, CA journal article cover page

Exposures we have excavated across the San Andreas fault contradict the hypothesis that part of the fault in the Carrizo Plain is unusually strong and experiences relatively infrequent rupture. The exposures record evidence of at least seven surface-rupturing earthquakes which have been approximately dated by accelerated mass spectrometry radiocarbon analysis of detrital charcoal and buried in situ plants.

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