A ground shaking amplification map for New Zealand
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Title (Dublin Core)
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A ground shaking amplification map for New Zealand
Description (Dublin Core)
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A ground shaking amplification map of New Zealand has been compiled from data held by GNS Science. The resulting map is being used in RiskScape, a tool for comparing risks at a given site from a variety of hazards by estimating potential losses.
A GIS-based geological map with national coverage has been composed from several sources, and is used as the base data. Geological maps from the QMAP project (an ongoing project to digitally compile 1:250,000 geological maps for all of New Zealand) have been used where available, supplemented with detailed geological maps at scales ranging from 1:25,000 to 1:50,000 for the larger urban areas. Gaps in the QMAP series have been filled by the 1:1,000,000 ‘Geological Map of New Zealand’.
Every geological polygon in the composite geological map has been assigned one of the ground shaking amplification (or site) classes from the New Zealand Standard for Structural Design Actions – Earthquake actions (NZS 1170.5) to produce the result map. These conform to the site class definitions in NZS 1170.5, which describes five classes with respect to ground shaking amplification. Assignment of these classes was straightforward for rock sites but more involved for soils where, for example, at boundaries between weak rock and deep soil sites a buffer zone of shallow soil was applied.
A GIS-based geological map with national coverage has been composed from several sources, and is used as the base data. Geological maps from the QMAP project (an ongoing project to digitally compile 1:250,000 geological maps for all of New Zealand) have been used where available, supplemented with detailed geological maps at scales ranging from 1:25,000 to 1:50,000 for the larger urban areas. Gaps in the QMAP series have been filled by the 1:1,000,000 ‘Geological Map of New Zealand’.
Every geological polygon in the composite geological map has been assigned one of the ground shaking amplification (or site) classes from the New Zealand Standard for Structural Design Actions – Earthquake actions (NZS 1170.5) to produce the result map. These conform to the site class definitions in NZS 1170.5, which describes five classes with respect to ground shaking amplification. Assignment of these classes was straightforward for rock sites but more involved for soils where, for example, at boundaries between weak rock and deep soil sites a buffer zone of shallow soil was applied.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Destegul, Umut
Dellow, Grant
Heron, David
Publisher (Dublin Core)
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New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
Date (Dublin Core)
2009-06-30
Type (Dublin Core)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Article
Format (Dublin Core)
application/pdf
Identifier (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/306
10.5459/bnzsee.42.2.122-128
Source (Dublin Core)
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Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 42 No 2 (2009); 122-128
2324-1543
1174-9857
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Relation (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/306/292
Rights (Dublin Core)
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Copyright (c) 2009 Umut Destegul, Grant Dellow, David Heron
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
