PEER Reports

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/12 titled “Reference-Rock Site Conditions for Central and Eastern North America: Part II – Attenuation (Kappa) Definition” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Kenneth W. Campbell, Youssef M.A. Hashash, Byungmin Kim, Albert R. Kottke, Ellen M. Rathje, Walter J. Silva, and Jonathan P. Stewart.

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This report presents the results of a comprehensive...

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/13 titled “Preliminary Notes and Observations on the August 24, 2014, South Napa Earthquake” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. The information contained in the report is the result of extensive preliminary field reconnaissance and initial analysis of ground motion records obtained in the days following the South Napa earthquake on August 24, 2014. A large number of faculty,...

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/15 titled “NGA-East Regionalization Report: Comparison of Four Crustal Regions within Central and Eastern North America using Waveform Modeling and 5%-Damped Pseudo-Spectral Acceleration Response” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jennifer Dreiling, Marius P. Isken, Walter D. Mooney, Martin C. Chapman, and Richard W. Godbee.

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An important aspect of...

PEER has just published Report No. 2014/16 titled “Guidelines for Performing Hazard-Consistent One-Dimensional Ground Response Analysis for Ground Motion Prediction” as a new addition to the PEER Report Series. It was authored by Jonathan P. Stewart, Kioumars Afshari, and Youssef M.A. Hashash.

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Along with source and path effects, site response analysis is a vital component of earthquake ground motion prediction. Semi...