Seismic Hazards in the Reno Area
PIs:
J. G. Anderson,
Y. Zeng,
F. Su, and
J. N. Louie
Funded $45,000 for 5/97-4/98 by the U.S. Geological Survey National
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Funded $100,000 for 5/99-4/01 by the U.S. Geological Survey National
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Reports to the USGS
- November 1, 2000 Annual Project Summary
PDF or
Word.
Research Components
- Gravity characterization of Reno and Carson City basin depths
- Refraction measurements of shallow surface-wave velocities
- Refraction microtremor and optimization methods for site strength
and earthquake hazard assessments: presented at Southern California
Earthquake Center Ann. Mtg., Sept. 23-26, Oxnard, Calif.
Abstract,
0.4 Mb Poster PDF, or
0.4 Mb Page-size Poster PDF.
- J. Louie, 2001,
Shear-Wave Velocities to 100 meters Depth From Refraction Microtremor
and Their Relation to ASTM Standards: presented at Seismol. Soc. Amer.
Ann. Mtg., April 20, San Francisco.
- J. Louie, 2000,
Obtaining shear-wave velocity structure to 100
meters depth from microtremor recordings on seismic refraction
equipment (poster): presented at Amer. Geophys. Union Fall Mtg., Dec. 15-19,
San Francisco.
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John N. Louie, 2001, Faster, better: shear-wave velocity to 100 meters depth from refraction microtremor arrays: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., v.
91, no. 2 (April), p. 347-364.
- May 2001 USGS proposal
PDF or
Word
- May 2000 USGS proposal
directory
- May 1999 USGS proposal
text,
fig. 1,
fig. 2,
fig. 3,
fig. 4,
and
fig. 5
(PDF).
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J. Louie, Instructions for getting surface-wave velocity spectra
from data recorded on seismic refraction equipment, class tutorial.
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J. Louie, Geophysical surveys of basin properties and geometry: examples of
seismic hazard evaluation From Nevada and New Zealand basins,
seminar at Victoria Univ. of Wellington School of Earth Sciences.
- Preliminary results
- Refraction geophone cluster test
- Site amplification response estimation
- 3-d basin amplification response modeling
