Report on a reconnaissance survey of damage in Kathmandu caused by the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1015-1029

  Okamura, Mitsu ^a   Bhandary, Netra P ^a   Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Marasini, Narayan ^a   Hazarika, Hemanta ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake damage survey; Gorkha Nepal earthquake; Liquefaction; Natural frequency; Road embankment

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; DAMAGE DETECTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LIQUEFACTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ROADS AND STREETS; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; SOILS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; JAPAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS; JAPANESE GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETIES; LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED DAMAGE; MICRO-TREMOR MEASUREMENTS; RECONNAISSANCE SURVEYS; ROAD EMBANKMENTS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84944596015     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sandf.2015.09.005     Document Type: Article

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