A new generation of earthquake ground shaking hazard maps for three urban areas in the western U.S.
Wong, Ivan, Olig, Susan, Dober, Mark, Silva Walter, Wright, Douglas, Thomas, Patricia, Gregor, Nick, Sanford, Lin, Kuo-Wan, Love, David, and Naugler, Wendy, 2000
Part II Albuquerque-Belen-Santa Fe New Mexico corridor [abs]: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Seismic Zonation, Palm Springs, CA
In an effort to portray the ground shaking hazards in the most populated region in New Mexico, we have developed earthquake scenario and probabilistic microzonation maps for the Albuquerque-Belen-Santa Fe corridor. These GIS-based maps display color-coded ground motion values in terms of peak horizontal acceleration and horizontal spectral accelerations at 0.2 and 1.0 sec periods. The maps depict surficial ground shaking and thus include the site response effects of soils and unconsolidated sediments. The scenario maps are for a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.0 earthquake on the Sandia-Rincon faults, which are located adjacent to and dip beneath Albuquerque. The probabilistic maps are for the two average return periods of building code relevance, 500 and 2,500 years.
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