Development of terrain classifications as a proxy to estimate VS30


Junko Iwahashi, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Ibaraki, Japan, Dai Yamazaki, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, Julie Herrick, US Geological Survey, Denver, United States, Alan Yong, US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States, Masashi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Takayuki Nakano, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Geography and Crustal Dynamic Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, Utkarsh Mital, California Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alexandros Savvaidis, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States