Evansville, Indiana, is one of the closest large urban areas to both the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where large earthquakes occurred in 1811–1812, and the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone, where there is evidence of several large prehistoric earthquakes in the last 14,000 yr. For this reason, Evansville has been targeted as a priority region for urban seismic-hazard assessment. The probabilistic seismi...

ground vibrations during an earthquake can severely damage structures and equipments housed in them. many factors including earthquake magnitude, distance from the fault or epicenter, duration of strong shaking, soil condition of the site, and the frequency content of the motion define the properties of ground motion and its amplification. a deep understanding of the effects of these factors on...

To analyze the seismic response characteristics of unequal-span subway station structures in saturated sites, a three-dimensional numerical model an structure is established, based on finite element analysis software MIDAS-GTS. The elastic modulus, cohesion, Poisson’s ratio, and friction angle are selected as sensitivity parameters. Moreover, combined with two-phase medium dynamic method, ortho...

Abstract In order to quantitatively evaluate the one-dimensional site seismic response analysis methods, this article selected 2418 ground motion records of Japan KiK-net strong-motion seismograph network and groups acceleration spectra calculated by DEEPSOIL, SHAKE2000, SOILQUAKE SOILRESPONSE, then` used dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm calculate DTW distance between measured spectrum spec...

The primary objective of the work-in-progress reported here is to compare near-surface imaging results using ultra-shallow (upper 3 m) seismic-reflection techniques and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) at an alluvial site near Great Bend, Kansas. Although various seismic and GPR surveys have been used for near-surface imaging, little i s known about how the two techniques might work in concert fo...