S11A:
Advances in Ground Motion Modeling in Eastern North America I

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Session ID#: 6786

Session Description:
The last few years have seen significant advances in our knowledge of earthquake ground motions in eastern North America (ENA).  The advances have been made possible by the availability of increased ground-motion data from small-to-moderate events recorded on regional networks, and modeling efforts conducted as part of major research initiatives, including in particular the NGA-East project.  We invite contributions dealing with both data and modeling that informs our understanding of earthquake source, path and site effects in ENA and other stable continental regions.
OSPA Liaison:  Chris H Cramer, University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, United States
Chairs:  Gail Marie Atkinson, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada and Christine A. Goulet, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Gail Marie Atkinson, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Convener:  Christine A. Goulet, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center, Berkeley, CA, United States
Index Terms:

7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SE - Solid Earth

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S11A-01
PEER NGA-East Overview: Development of a Ground Motion Characterization Model and Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Central and Eastern North America (35656)
Christine A. Goulet1, Yousef Bozorgnia1 and Norman A Abrahamson2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, United States
S11A-02
PEER NGA-East Database (36340)
Tadahiro Kishida1, Christine A. Goulet1, Timothy D. Ancheta2, Chris H Cramer3, Robert B. Darragh4, Walter J Silva Jr4, Youssef M. A. Hashash5, Joseph Harmon5, Jonathan P. Stewart6, Katie E. Wooddell1 and Robert R Youngs7, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Risk Management Solutions, Newark, CA, United States, (3)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, United States, (4)Pacific Engineering and Analysis, El Cerrito, CA, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (7)AMEC Oakland, Oakland, CA, United States
S11A-03
Ground-Motion Prediction Equation Development Using Random Vibration Theory, Bayesian Regression, and Finite Fault Simulations: The PEER NGA-East Example (36831)
Justin Chow Hollenback1, Nicolas Martin Kuehn1, Christine A. Goulet1 and Norm A Abrahamson2, (1)University of California, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA, United States
S11A-04
A Hybrid Empirical Ground Motion Prediction Model for Eastern North America (34430)
Shahram Pezeshk, The University of Memphis, Civil Engineering, Memphis, TN, United States, Arash Zandieh, Lettis Consultants International, Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, Kenneth W Campbell, CoreLogic EQECAT, Oakland, CA, United States and Behrooz Tavakoli, Bechtel Power Corporation, San Francisco, CA, United States
S11A-05
A Preliminary Model of Site Amplification for use in Ground-Motion Modeling in Southern Ontario (33247)
Sebastian Braganza, Hadi Ghofrani and Gail Marie Atkinson, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
S11A-06
An ENA Empirical GMPE based on the NGA East Database and Intensity Observations (33565)
Chris H Cramer1, Md. Nayeem Al Noman2 and Luke Philip Ogweno2, (1)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, United States, (2)University of Memphis, CERI, Memphis, TN, United States
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