Modelling ground motion in the Hutt Valley, New Zealand
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Modelling ground motion in the Hutt Valley, New Zealand
Description (Dublin Core)
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The Hutt Valley is an alluvial basin that hosts the city of Lower Hutt, in the North Island, New Zealand. The basin is bounded by the Wellington Fault on its northwest side, and exhibits ground motion amplification factors up to about 15, measured by several seismic experiments using weak motion and portable seismic arrays during 1990-1991. Synthetic seismograms computed by using local 1D stratigraphic models under each station reproduce qualitatively the amplitudes and durations of the corresponding observed seismograms at most of the soft site stations of the arrays. Amplification factors estimated from spectral ratios of the synthetic seismograms are up to about 9. The authors present comparisons of amplification between synthetics and observations, allowing a “calibration” of the model so that it could be used to determine more realistic ground amplifications for earthquake scenarios.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Ma, Shu Qin
Savage, Martha
Yu, Jiashun
Publisher (Dublin Core)
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New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
Date (Dublin Core)
2007-12-31
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/340
10.5459/bnzsee.40.4.190-199
Source (Dublin Core)
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Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 40 No 4 (2007); 190-199
2324-1543
1174-9857
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Relation (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/340/326
Rights (Dublin Core)
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Copyright (c) 2007 Shu Qin Ma, Martha Savage, Jiashun Yu
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
