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Open-File Report 96-532

National Seismic Hazard Maps: Documentation June 1996

By Arthur Frankel, Charles Mueller, Theodore Barnhard, David Perkins, E.V. Leyendecker, Nancy Dickman, Stanley Hanson, and Margaret Hopper

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Atkinson, G.M. and D.M. Boore (1996). Empirically-based stochastic ground motion predictions for eastern North America, Earthquake Spectra, (submitted).

Boore, D.M. (1986). Short-period P- and S-wave radiation from large earthquakes: Implications for spectral scaling relations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 76, 43--64.

Boore, D.M. (1996). SMSIM-- Fortran programs for simulating ground motions from earthquakes: version 1.0, U.S. Geol. Survey Open-File Report (in internal review).

Boore, D. M. and W. B. Joyner (1991). Estimation of ground motion at deep-soil sites in eastern North America, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 81, 2167--2185.

Boore, D.M. and W.B. Joyner (1996). Site-amplifications for generic rock sites, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. (in internal review).

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Frankel, A., P. Thenhaus, and K. Jacob (1995). Seismic hazard mapping in the northeastern United States, NCEER Bulletin, v. 9, number 1, 13-16.

Silva, W. J., and R. B. Darragh (1995). Engineering Characterization of Strong Ground Motion Recorded at Rock Sites, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif., Report No. TR-102262.

Toro, G.R., N.A. Abrahamson, and J.F. Schneider (1993). Engineering model of strong ground motions from earthquakes in the central and eastern United States, in Guidelines fo determining design basis ground motions, EPRI TR-102293, J.F. Schneider, ed., Electric Power Research Institute.

 

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