Earthquake Research Advances, 2022 A series of housing collapses and other serious damage was caused by the 2008 Wenchuan MS 8.0 earthquake in the seismic intensity Ⅵ areas of the Loess Plateau, which is hundreds of kilometers away from the epicenter, and which showed a remarkable seismic
Xiaowu Pu +6 more
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Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Masonry Structures Built with Disassembled Brick Wall Sections
Buildings, 2022 Disassembling brick wall pieces into brick wall sections and constructing masonry buildings with disassembled brick wall sections (DBWSs) can reduce construction waste production at source and help achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
Zhiming Su +3 more
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Real-time Performance of the Virtual Seismologist Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm in Southern California [PDF]
, 2009 The Virtual Seismologist (VS) method is a Bayesian approach to regional network-based earthquake early warning (EEW) that estimates earthquake magnitude, location, and the distribution of peak ground motion using observed ground motion amplitudes ...
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Neural Network-Based Equations for Predicting PGA and PGV in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas
, 2018 Parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas have experienced increased rates of seismicity in recent years, providing new datasets of earthquake recordings to develop ground motion prediction models for this particular region of the Central and Eastern North ...
Ahmad I. +16 more
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Annals of Geophysics, 1995 This article describes the results of a ground motion modeling study of the 1915 Avezzano earthquake. The goal was to test assuinptions regarding the rupture process of this earthquake by attempting to model the damage to historical monuments and ...
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Limiting the effects of earthquakes on gravitational-wave interferometers
, 2017 Ground-based gravitational wave interferometers such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) are susceptible to high-magnitude teleseismic events, which can interrupt their operation in science mode and significantly reduce the ...
Biscans, Sebastien +11 more
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The study of ground motion amplification based on an SMASS array site
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 There is a consensus in earthquake engineering that different soil structures have significant effects on ground motion. Three main methods can be used to study this issue: theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and earthquake records analysis ...
Ping Li +4 more
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Shear-Wave Velocity Characterization of the USGS Hawaiian Strong-Motion Network on the Island of Hawaii and Development of an NEHRP Site-Class Map [PDF]
, 2011 To assess the level and nature of ground shaking in Hawaii for the purposes of earthquake hazard mitigation and seismic design, empirical ground-motion prediction models are desired.
Cox, Brady R. +7 more
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Simulation of Strong Earthquake Ground Motions Based on the Phase Derivative
BuildingsA physical method for modeling the phase spectrum of earthquake ground motion is derived by defining relationships between the envelope delay and Fourier amplitude.
Yanqiong Ding, Yazhou Xu, Huiquan Miao
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Preliminary engineering analysis of the August 24th 2016, ML 6.0 central Italy earthquake records
Annals of Geophysics, 2016 An earthquake of estimated local magnitude (ML) 6.0 struck central Italy on the 24th of August (01:36:32 UTC) in the vicinity of Accumoli (close to Rieti, central Italy) initiating a long-lasting seismic sequence that also featured events of larger ...
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