Strong Motion Records from CESMD
See the Website: Chile Coquimbo Offshore Earthquake of 16 September 2015 Ericson Encina Zuniga, PhD Student at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Strong Motion Records Analysis By Ruben Boroschek, University of Chile
Read the Report: Download the Strong Motion Records Analysis Preliminary Report By Ruben Boroschek, University of Chile (0.56 MB PDF) Ericson Encina Zuniga, PhD Student at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Ground Motion Assessment Summary
Figure 1. Historical seismicity of Chile – Source: CSN Several seismic motions have been felt since the main 8.4 Mw magnitude earthquake on 16 September 16 at 7:45 p.m. local Chilean time. As per 2 October, CSN had processed around 1100 aftershocks with magnitudes over 3.0, being the largest aftershock the one occurred […]
Kumamoto Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing Videos
The videos in the series are: Damage to Highway Bridges, by Denis Istrati, University of Nevada, Reno Ground Motions and Early Warning, by Masumi Yamada, DPRI Kyoto University Soil and Structure Damages under Extreme Ground Motion, by Hiroyuki Goto, DPRI, Kyoto University Societal Impacts: Sheltering & Volunteers, by James Goltz, DPRI, Kyoto University. Kumamoto Earthquake Damage to […]
Overview of Damage to Roads and Bridges in Nishihara Area
Overview of Nishihara Area Nishihara area is located 10km northeast from Mashiki town and faces Minami-Aso village on its east end. The area is located on the Futagawa fault zone which showed slips around 2m at the ground surface (right strike-slip fault) [1]. The activity of the Futagawa fault caused severe damage to roads and […]
Ground motions of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
Overview of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake caused severe damage to Kumamoto area, Japan. Due to the shallow depth of epicenter, the particularly severe damage was caused in Mashiki town located 10km away from Kumamoto city. The earthquake consists of two strong ground motions (9:26pmJST on 4/14 and 1:25amJST on 4/16) and a […]
Comparison of Recorded and Design Ground-Motion Spectra
The Geonet strong-motion records in .csv format and their plots reprocessed with broader passbands to retain content beyond 4-sec can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9-RKNbC1wCpeVdjSnQ1RXA5TlU
Spectral Accelerations in Wellington/Hutt as a percentage of SLS/ULS
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Seismic Wave Propagation Model
Citation: Kaneko Y, Tape C, Casarotti E. 2016. 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake Computer Simulation. GNS Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.21420/G27P4P Video 1.
Magnitude-Distance Characteristics at Urban Centres
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