S12A:
Advances in Site Response I

Session ID#: 4245

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Salons 4-6 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Jan Burjanek, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Marta Pischiutta, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy and Sebastiano D'Amico, University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Msida, Malta
Primary Convener:  Marta Pischiutta, INGV, Roma, Italy
Co-conveners:  Jan Burjanek, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Sebastiano D'Amico, University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Msida, Malta and Francesco Panzera, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Physics Department, Reykjavík, Iceland
OSPA Liaison:  Sebastiano D'Amico, University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Msida, Malta
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S12A-01
On the Accuracy of Vs30-Based Site Response Amplifications in California (Invited) (9691)
Eric Thompson and David J Wald, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
S12A-02
Strong Effects of Vs30 Heterogeneity on Physics-Based Scenario Ground-Shaking Computations (Invited) (4581)
John N Louie, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV, United States and Satish K Pullammanappallil, Optim, Reno, NV, United States
S12A-03
Ground Motion Site Effects from Multi-Method Shear-Wave Velocity Characterization at Seismograph Stations Deployed for Aftershocks of the August 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake (Invited) (5337)
William J Stephenson, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, Jack K Odum, USGS, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel E McNamara, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States and Robert A Williams, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
S12A-04
Nonlinear Site Response Validation Studies Using KIK-net Strong Motion Data (19073)
Domniki Asimaki, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Jian Shi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
S12A-05
Frequency-Scaled Curvature as a Proxy for Topographic Site-Effect Amplification and Ground-Motion Variability (17671)
Emeline Maufroy1, Fabrice Cotton1,2, Victor M Cruz-Atienza3 and Stephane Gaffet4,5, (1)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Mexico, Mexico, (4)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (5)Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, Univ. Avignon, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Univ., LSBB UMS 3538, Rustrel, France
S12A-06
Site Amplification, Polarity and Topographic Effects in the Port Hills During the 2010 - 2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand (20482)
Anna E Kaiser1, Caroline Francois-Holden1, Christopher Massey2 and Rafael A Benites3, (1)GNS-Science, Avalon, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)Earth Sciences New Zealand, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
S12A-07
Inversion of H/V ratio in layered systems (28660)
José Pina Flores1, Antonio García-Jerez2, Francisco Luzón2, Mathieu Perton3 and Francisco J Sanchez-Sesma1, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)University of Almeria, Departamento de Química y Física, Almeria, Spain, (3)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ingeniería, Morelia, Mexico
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