Papers from the USA

Plenary: ENHANCING SITE RESPONSE THROUGH DOWNHOLE ARRAY RECORDINGS, Youssef M. A. Hashash, David R. Groholski, and Byungmin Kim.

Plenary: SITE RESPONSE MODELING IN LIQUEFIABLE SOIL DEPOSITS, Steve L. Kramer, Aaron J. Hartvigsen, Samuel S. Sideras, and Pelin T. Ozener.

Plenary: PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS FOR SEATTLE: 3D SEDIMENTARY BASIN EFFECTS, NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE, AND UNCERTAINTIES FROM RANDOM VELOCITY VARIATIONS, Arthur Frankel, William Stephenson, David Carver, Jack Odum, Robert Williams, and Susan Rhea.

Plenary: COMPLEX SITE RESPONSE: DOES ONE-DIMENSIONAL SITE RESPONSE WORK?, Laurie G. Baise, Eric M. Thompson, James Kaklamanos, and Luis Dorfmann.

Plenary: EFFECTS OF LOCAL GEOLOGY ON EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS: FROM RESEARCH TO ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND BUILDING CODES, C. B. Crouse.

Plenary: ENGINEERING CHARACTERIZATION OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION COHERENCY AND AMPLITUDE VARIABILITY, Timothy D. Ancheta, Jonathan P. Stewart, and Norman A. Abrahamson.

Plenary: EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKE SOURCE GEOMETRY AND SITE CONDITIONS ON SPATIAL CORRELATION OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION HAZARD, Jack W. Baker and Mahalia K. Miller.

1.2 TEMPORAL CHANGES OF SITE RESPONSE DURING THE Mw9.0 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN, Chunquan Wu and Zhigang Peng.

1.5 PRELIMINARY SITE RESPONSE STUDY IN THE BIO BIO REGION, CHILE, USING THE KAPPA METHOD, Corrie Neighbors, Eric Liao, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Angela Chung, Jesse F. Larence, Arturo Belmonte, Matt Miller, and Hector H. Sepulveda.

1.6 EFFECTS OF TOPOGRAPHIC POSITION AND GEOLOGY ON SHAKING DAMAGE TO RESIDENTIAL WOOD-FRAME STRUCTURES DURING THE 2003 SAN SIMEON EARTHQUAKE, WESTERN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, Timothy P. McCrink, Chris J. Wills, Charles R. Real, and Michael W. Manson.

1.9 STRONG GROUND MOTION IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI, DURING THE M7.0 12 JANUARY 2010 EARTHQUAKE, Susan E. Hough, Doug Given, Tomoyo Taniguchi, Jean-Robert Altidor, Dieuseul Anglade, and Saint-Louis Mildor.

1.10 COUPLED TOPOGRAPHY-STRATIGRAPHY EFFECTS DURING THE M7.0 HAITI EARTHQUAKE: THE CASE OF HOTEL MONTANA, Dominic Assimaki and Seokho Jeong.

2.4 CONSISTENCY OF GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS FROM SITE RESPONSE ANALYSES WITH EMPIRICAL PREDICTIONS, Erik J. Malvick, Richard J. Armstrong, and Jeffrey K. Howard.

2.9 TREASURE ISLAND GEOTECHNICAL ARRAY - CASE STUDY FOR SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS, Vladimir Graizer.

2.10 SITE EFFECTS MEASURED AT THE NEES@UCSB WILDLIFE STATION FROM THE 2010 OCOTILLO SWARM, Daniel A. Huthsing, Sandra W. H. Seale, and Jamison H. Steidl.

2.20 STRESS DROP VARIABILITY AND SITE EFFECTS AT THE BORREGO VALLEY DOWNHOLE ARRAY, Jorge Crempien and Ralph Archuleta.

2.23 NEAR SURFACE GEOLOGY AND THE TURKEY FLAT GROUND MOTION PREDICTION EXPERIMENT - LESSONS LEARNED AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE, Steven L. Kramer, Anthony F. Shakal, Hamid R. Haddadi, and Charles R. Real.

3.2 TESTING 3D SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS FOR THE LOS ANGELES BASIN REGION, Robert W. Graves.

3.4 SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF GROUND MOTION AMPLIFICATION FROM LOW-VELOCITY SEDIMENTS INCLUDING FRACTAL INHOMOGENEITIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BASINS, Kim Olsen and Bo Holm Jacobsen.

3.7 LONG-PERIOD EARTHQUAKE SIMULATIONS IN THE WASATCH FRONT, UT: MISFIT CHARACTERIZATION AND GROUND MOTION ESTIMATES, Morgan P. Moschetti and Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman.

3.15 EFFECT OF SHORELINE FAULT ZONE SEGMENTATIONS ON SIMULATION OF LONG-PERIOD SEISMIC MOTIONS AND SEISMIC LOAD FOR DIABLO CANYON POWER PLANT, Alexander Bykovtsev and Marat Kasimov.

3.18 EFFECTS OF SOIL NONLINEARITY ON GROUND RESPONSE IN 3D SIMULATIONS - AN APPLICATION TO THE SALT LAKE CITY BASIN, Dorian Restrepo, Ricardo Taborda, and Jacobo Bielak.

3.26 ENSEMBLE SIMULATIONS OF RUPTURES ON ROUGH FAULTS: VARIABILITY IN RUPTURE PROCESS AND GROUND MOTION, Zijun Fang, Hyunghoon Cho, and Eric M. Dunham.

4.2 CONTRIBUTION TO GROUND MOTION UNCERTAINTY FROM SITE RESPONSE OF SHALLOW DEPOSITS, Haitham M. Dawood, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Gonzalo A. Montalva, Fabrice Cotton, and Fabian Bonilla.

4.9 SEISMIC MICROZONATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SEISMIC DESIGN GROUND MOTIONS FOR THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, CALIFORNIA, Ivan Wong, Patricia Thomas, Fouad Bendimerad, Walt Silva, Nick Gregor, Kenneth Stokoe, and Jiabei Yuan.

4.12 CONSISTENCY OF GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS FROM NON-LINEAR EMBANKMENT ANALYSES, Richard J. Armstrong, Erik J. Malvick, and Jeffrey K. Howard.

5.3 , Francesco Civilini and Jamison Steidl.

5.5 A COMPARISON OF AMPLITUDES OF NOISE CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS, Victor C. Tsai.

6.1 REGIONAL CORRELATIONS OF VS30 AND VELOCITIES AVERAGED OVER DEPTHS LESS THAN AND GREATER THAN 30M, David M. Boore, Eric M. Thompson, and Heloise Cadet.

6.3 INVESTIGATION OF GEOGRAPHIC RULES FOR IMPROVING SITE-CONDITIONS MAPPING, Chris Wills and Carlos Gutierrez.

6.4 A TERRAIN-BASED SITE CONDITIONS MAP OF CALIFORNIA WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES, Alan Yong, Susan E. Hough, Junko Iwahashi, and Amy Braverman.

6.5 A NEW STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING VS30 MAPS, David J. Wald, Leslie McWhirter, Eric Thompson, and Amanda S. Hering.

6.12 SITE FACTORS FOR ESTIMATING PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, BASED ON Vs30, Shimelies Aboye, Ronald Andrus, Nadarajah Ravichandran, Ariful Bhuiyan, and Nicholas Harman.