A method is presented for determining the local magnitude, NIL, from records from seismoscopes and similar instruments. The technique extrapolates the maximum response of the standard Wood-Anderson seismograph, which determines ML, from the maximum response of the seismoscope. The standard deviation of the steady-state response of an oscillator subjected to white noise excitation is used to der...

BACKGROUND Earthquakes and other catastrophic events frequently occurring worldwide can be considered as outliers and cause a growing and urgent need to improve our understanding of the negative effects imposed by such disasters. Earthquakes can intensively impact the birth outcomes upon psychological and morphological development of the unborn children, albeit detailed characteristics remain o...

In recent decades many researchers have studied on the damage assessment of structures after a seismic event. To assess the damage of structures under an earthquake, it is so important to study the correlations between earthquake parameters and damages of the structures. A lot of seismic parameters have been defined by researchers to characterize an earthquake. Spectral parameters of an earthqu...

Selection of earthquake ground motions is considered with the goal of accurately estimating the response of a structure at a speci ed ground motion intensity, as measured by spectral acceleration at the rstmode period of the structure, Sa(T1). Consideration is given to the magnitude, distance and epsilon ( ) values of ground motions. First, it is seen that selecting records based on their value...

The analysis of the Nahanni earthquakes of October 5, 1985 (Ms 6.6), and December 23, 1985 (Ms 6.9), will have important implications for the assessment of seismic hazards in intraplate environments. To maximize the information available to seismic engineers, broadband data recorded teleseismically are analyzed jointly with strong-motion data recorded in the near field. The timedomain analysis ...

A method is presented for determining the local magnitude, NIL, from records from seismoscopes and similar instruments. The technique extrapolates the maximum response of the standard Wood-Anderson seismograph, which determines ML, from the maximum response of the seismoscope. The standard deviation of the steady-state response of an oscillator subjected to white noise excitation is used to der...

An application is presented of a recently proposed system identification method for buildings that takes into account the effects of soil-structure interaction and the coupling of the horizontal and rocking motions of the foundation. The method gives the uncoupled structural fixed-base frequency f1 and rigid-body rocking frequency fR using data only from two horizontal sensors (at base and roof...

performance seismic evaluation is an important topic in earthquake engineering. in this regard, several methods have previously been developed and used. the main objective of present research is to evaluate two methods including “capacity spectrum method (csm)” and “improved capacity spectrum method (icsm)” in determination of seismic performance of concrete frames. for this purpose, several sa...

This paper explores several data mining and time series analysis methods for predicting the magnitude of the largest seismic event in the next year based on the previously recorded seismic events in the same region. The methods are evaluated on a catalog of 9,042 earthquake events, which took place between 01/01/1983 and 31/12/2010 in the area of Israel and its neighboring countries. The data w...

BACKGROUND On February 27, 2010 a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami stroke Chile. The study of mortality during this emergency can provide important public health information. AIM To describe the main characteristics of people who died during the earthquake and the following three months. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross sectional analysis of death records databases obtained from Departme...