Ground motion characteristics and shaking damage of the 11th March 2011 Mw9.0 Great East Japan earthquake

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 141-170

  Goda, Katsuichiro ^a   Pomonis, Antonios ^b   Chian, Siau Chen ^c   Offord, Mark ^d   Saito, Keiko ^b   Sammonds, Peter ^e   Fraser, Stuart ^f   Raby, Alison ^g   Macabuag, Joshua ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d SELLAFIELD LTD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^h Building Design Partnership ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

11th March 2011 Great East Japan (T hoku) earthquake; Field investigation and observation; Ground motion characteristics; Ground shaking damage; Long duration motion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LOSSES; SURVEYS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING FIELD INVESTIGATION TEAMS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; GROUND MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; GROUND-SHAKING; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LONG DURATION; NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EARTHQUAKES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FIELD METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GROUND MOTION; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SITE INVESTIGATION; TSUNAMI; URBAN AREA; VIBRATION; VULNERABILITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOHOKU;

EID: 84872960796     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-012-9371-x     Document Type: Article

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