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- Title
- Implications of the Landers and Big Bear Earthquakes on Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures.
- File
- PB99107492.pdf
- Author(s)
- Anderson, J. C.; Bertero, V. V.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., July 1997, 110 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-97/08
- Abstract
- The magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake (1992) produced two long duration records of strong ground motion and one strong record in the near fault region. Three hours later the magnitude 6.2 Big Bear earthquake (1992) occurred some twenty miles to the west. Had these ground motions occurred in a populated region rather than on the western edge of the Mojave Desert, damage to all types of civil engineering facilities would have been substantial.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Damage assessment; California; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Big Bear (California); Landers (California); Buildings; Soil-structure interactions; San Bernandina Mountains; Mojave desert; Ductility