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- Title
- Preliminary Report on the Seismological and Engineering Aspects of the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
- File
- PB94157666.pdf
- Author(s)
- Moehle, J. P.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 24, 1994, 90 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-94/01
- Abstract
- Immediately following the 17 January, 1994, Northridge earthquake, the Earthquake Engineering Research Center dispatched a reconnaissance team to the epicentral region. The report, issued one week after the earthquake, provides an overview of the seismological and engineering aspects of the earthquake and associated aftershocks.
- Keywords
- Sites; Seismic epicenter; Liquefaction; Land slides; Risk assessment; Damage assessment; Magnitude; Observation; Soils; Aftershocks; Instrumentation; San Francisco Bay region; Failure; Seismology; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Northridge earthquake; Maps; Earthquakes