Shear wave velocity- and geology-based seismic microzonation of port-au-prince, Haiti

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Cox, Brady R ^a   Bachhuber, Jeff ^b   Rathje, Ellen ^c   Wood, Clinton M ^a   Dulberg, Ranon ^b   Kottke, Albert ^d   Green, Russell A ^e   Olson, Scott M ^f  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e State University   (United States)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BUILDING CODES; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CODES (SYMBOLS); SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; SURVEYING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE; MULTI-CHANNEL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES; SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SITE CLASSIFICATION; SUBSURFACE INFORMATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 80055096574     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3630226     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Assimaki, D., Li, W., Steidl, J. H., and Tsuda, K., 2008. Site amplification and attenuation via downhole array seismogram inversion: A comparative study of the 2003 Miyagi-Oki aftershock sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 98, 301-330. (Pubitemid 351359190)
2. Barani, S., De Ferrari, R., Ferretti, G., and Eva, C., 2008. Assessing the effectiveness of soil parameters for ground response characterization and soil classification, Earthquake Spectra 24, 565-597.
3. Benjumea, B., Hunter, J. A., Pullan, S. E., Brooks, G. R., Pyne, M., and Alysworth, J. M., 2008. VS30 and fundamental site period estimates in soft sediments of the Ottawa Valley from near-surface geophysical measurements, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 13, 313-323.
4. Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC), 2003. NEHRP Recommended Provisions for Seismic Regulations for New Buildings and Other Structures, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington D.C.
5. Cadet, H., Bard, P.-Y., and Duval, A.-M., 2008. A new proposal for site classification based on ambient vibration measurements and the KiK-net strong motion data set, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 12-17 October 2008, Beijing, China.
6. Cassidy, J. F., and Mucciarelli, M., 2010. The importance of ground-truthing for earthquake site response, Proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 25-29 July 2010, Toronto, Canada.
7. Cox, B. R., and Wood, C. M., 2011. Surface wave benchmarking exercise: Methodologies, results and uncertainties, GeoRisk2011: Risk Assessment and Management in Geoengineering, ASCE Conf. Proc., 26-28 June 2011, Atlanta, GA (submitted).
8. Cox, B. R., and Wood, C. M., 2010. A comparison of linear-Array surface wave methods at a soft soil site in the Mississippi Embayment, Geo Florida2010: Advances in Analysis, Modeling & Design, ASCE Conf. Proc., 20-24 February 2010, West Palm Beach, FL.
9. European Committee for Standardization (CEN), 2004. Eurocode 8: Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance, EN 1998-1, Brussels, Belgium.
10. Foti, S., 2000. Multistation Methods for Geotechnical Characterization using Surface Waves, Ph.D. dissertation, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 229 pp.
11. Foti, S., 2005. Surface wave testing for geotechnical characterization, in Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks, CISM Series, Number 481 (C.
12. Gallipoli, M. R., and Mucciarelli, M., 2009. Comparison of site classification from VS30, VS10, and HVSR in Italy, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 99, 340-351.
13. Green, R. A., Olson, S. M., Cox, B. R., Rix, G., Rathje, E., Bachhuber, J., French, J., Lasley, S., and Martin, N., 2011. Geotechnical aspects of failures at Port-Au-Prince Seaport during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, this issue.
14. Holzer, T. L., Padovani, A. C., Bennett, M. J., Noce, T. E., and Tinsley, J. C., 2005. Mapping NEHRP VS30 site classes, Earthquake Spectra 21, 353-370. (Pubitemid 40843654)
15. International Code Council, Inc. (ICC), 2009. International Building Code, Washington D.C.
16. Kramer, S. L., 1996. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 653 pp.
17. Lambert, M., Gaudin, J., and Cohen, R., 1987. Geologic Map of Haiti, South-East Region: Port-Au-Prince, Centre d'É tudes et De Réalisations Cartographiques Géographiques (CERCG), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.
18. Olson, S. M., Green, R. A., Lasley, S., Martin, N., Cox, B. R., Rathje, E., Bachhuber, J., and French, J., 2011. Documenting liquefaction and lateral spreading triggered by the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, this issue.
19. Park, C. B., Miller, R. D., and Xia, J., 1999. Multichannel analysis of surface waves, Geophysics 64, 800-808. (Pubitemid 29511461)
20. Park, C. B., and Carnevale, M., 2010. Optimum MASW survey-Revisited after a decade of use, GeoFlorida 2010: Advances in Analysis, Modeling & Design, ASCE Conf. Proc., 20-24 February 2010, West Palm Beach, FL.
21. Park, D., and Hashash, Y. M. A., 2005. Evaluation of seismic site factors in the Mississippi Embayment. II. Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis with nonlinear site effects, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 25, 145-156. (Pubitemid 40234160)
22. du Port-Au-prince dans l'isle Saint Domingue, Recueil De vues des lieux principaux De la colonie françoise De Saint-Domingue, Paris, France. Obtained from the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (JCB Call Number E791 P793r = 3-SIZE).
23. Phung, V., Atkinson, G. M., Lau, D. T., 2006. Methodology for site classification estimation using strong-motion data from the Chi-Chi Taiwan earthquake, Earthquake Spectra 22, 511-531. (Pubitemid 43984333)
24. Rathje, E. M., Bachhuber, J., Dulberg, R., Cox, B. R., Kottke, A., Wood, C., Green, R., Olson, S., Wells, D., Rix, G., 2011. Damage Patterns in Port-Au-Prince during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, this issue.
25. Rathje, E., Bachhuber, J., Cox, B. R., French, J., Green, R., Olson, S., Rix, G., Wells, D., Suncar, O., 2010. Geotechnical Engineering Reconnaissance of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Tech. Rep. GEER-021, http://www.geerassociation.org/ GEER-Post %20EQ%20Reports/Haiti-2010/Haiti10-index.html, published online February 2010.
26. Rix, G., 2005. Near-surface site characterization using surface waves, in Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks, CISM Series, Number 481, (C. G. Lai and K. Wilmanski, eds.), Springer, Wien, New York, NY, 1-46.
27. Rodriguez-Marek, A., Bray, J. D., and Abrahamson, N. A., 2001. An empirical geotechnical seismic site response procedure, Earthquake Spectra 17, 65-87. (Pubitemid 32446397)
28. Sandikkaya, M. A., Yilmaz, M. T., Bakir, B. S., and Yilmaz, O., 2010. Site classification of Turkish national strong-motion stations, Journal of Seismology 14, 543-563.
29. Seed, R. B., Cetin, K. O., Moss, R. E. S., Kammerer, A. M., Wu, J., Pestana, J. M., and Riemer, M. F., 2001. Recent advances in soil liquefaction engineering and seismic site response evaluation, Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 26-31 March 2001, San Diego, CA.
30. Socco, L. V., and Strobbia, C., 2004. Surface wave methods for near-surface characterisation: A tutorial, Near Surface Geophysics 2, 165-185.
31. Sun, C. G., Kim, D. S., and Chung, C. K., 2005. Geologic site conditions and site coefficients for estimating earthquake ground motions in the inland areas of Korea, Engineering Geology 81, 446-469.
32. Thompson, E. M., Baise, L. G., and Kayen, R. E., 2007. Spatial correlation of shear-wave velocity in the San Francisco Bay Area sediments, Soil Dyn. Earth. Eng. 27, 144-152. (Pubitemid 44645143)
33. Thompson, E. M., Baise, L. G., Kayen, R. E., Tanaka, Y., and Tanaka, H., 2010. A geostatistical approach to mapping site response spectral amplifications, Engineering Geology 114, 330-342.
34. Tran, K. T., and Hiltunen, D. R., 2008. A comparison of shear wave velocity profiles from SASW, MASW, and ReMi techniques, in Proceedings of the Conference of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV, May 18-22, 2008, Sacramento, California, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 181 (CD-ROM), American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.
35. Wills, C. J., Clahan, K. B., 2006. Developing a map of geologically defined site-condition categories for California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, 1483-1501. (Pubitemid 44295444)
36. Wong, I., Stokoe, II, K. H., Cox, B. R., Yuan, J., Knudsen, K. L., Terra, F., and Okubo, P., 2011. Shear-wave velocity characterization of the USGS Hawaiian strong motion network onthe island of Hawaii and development of a NEHRP site class map, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., (accepted for publication).
37. Xia, J., Miller, R. D., Park, C. B., Hunter, J. A., Harris, J. B., and Ivanov, J., 2002. Comparing shear-wave velocity profiles inverted from multichannel surface wave with borehole measurements, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 22, 181-190. (Pubitemid 34667839)
38. Zaré, M., and Bard, P. Y., 2002. Soil motion dataset of Turkey: Data processing and site classification, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 22, 703-718. (Pubitemid 35374794)
39. Zywicki, D. J., 1999. Advanced Signal Processing Methods Applied to Engineering Analysis of Seismic Surface Waves, Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 357 pp.
40. Zywicki, D. J., and Rix, G. J., 2005. Mitigation of near-field effects for seismic surface wave velocity estimation with cylindrical beamformers, J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng. 131, 970-977. (Pubitemid 41174764)