The Landers (USA) Earthquake of June 28, 1992

Source: PEER Strong Motion

Database
Recoding station: 000 SCE Station 24
Magnitude 7.3Mw
Depth 0.68 miles (1.09 km)
Epicenter 34.217 deg. N 116.433 deg. W
Type Strike Slip
Foreshocks 6.1 Mw April 23 at 4:51AM
Max. Intensity IX (Violent)
Casualties 400+ injured and 3 kills
According to the recorded data the maximum Peak Ground Acceleration is about 7.4356g achieve at 14sec, Peak Ground Velocity is
about 382.6755 cm /sec at 1024 sec and Ground Deformation is about 1.3060 m at 11.135 sec.

400

300
Velocity [cm/sec]

200

100
0
-100

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
Time [sec]

1
Displacement [m]

0.5

-0.5

-1

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
Time [sec]
Newmark Method Linear Acceleration Method
Basic Assumption
fn= 1 to 50 Hz which have interval of 1 Hz ,ξ=5% ,m=1Kg
Initial Conditions
Po=0, uo=0, ůo=0, üo=0 and Δt= 0.01

Displacement
0.08m
0.07m
0.06m
0.05m
0.04m
0.03m
0.02m
0.01m
0m
0Hz 10Hz 20Hz 30Hz 40Hz 50Hz 60Hz

Note: The maximum displacement occurs at the frequency of 1 Hz which is equal to 0.0745m
 Pseudo Velocity
0.5m/sec.
0.45m/sec.
0.4m/sec.
0.35m/sec.
0.3m/sec.
0.25m/sec.
0.2m/sec.
0.15m/sec.
0.1m/sec.
0.05m/sec.
0m/sec.
0Hz 10Hz 20Hz 30Hz 40Hz 50Hz 60Hz

Note: The maximum Pseudo Velocity occurs at the frequency of 1 Hz which is equal to 0.4681 m/sec.

3.5g

3g
Pseudo Acceleration
2.5g

2g

1.5g

1g

0.5g

0g
0Hz 10Hz 20Hz 30Hz 40Hz 50Hz 60Hz

Note: The maximum Pseudo Acceleration occurs at the frequency of 12 Hz which is equal to 3.2012g.
Fourier Amplitude Spectra

3.5

3
Fourier Amplitude

2.5

1.5

0.5

0
0.1 1 10 100
Frequency [Hz]

Note: The maximum Predominant Fourier Amplitude occurs at the frequency between 11 and 12 Hz which is approximately equal to
0.4506.
ASSIGNMENT 2

Reyes, Christian B.
MSCE-201690718
October 19, 2017