Tulsa / Melbourne / Adelaide / San Diego / Perth / /
Company
Earthquake Engineering Research Group / /
Country
Japan / Australia / China / Greece / New Zealand / /
Currency
JPY / /
Event
Natural Disaster / Man-Made Disaster / /
Facility
Tin Shui Wai Station / Earthquake Research Institute / Yen Chow Street Station / University of Melbourne / Institute of Geophysics / University of Hong Kong / Tuen Mun North Station / Monash University / Long Ping Station / Yuen Long Station / /
IndustryTerm
suitable power law / radiated seismic energy / energy / /
NaturalFeature
Happy Valley / Hong Kong Island / /
Organization
University of Melbourne / Seismological Society of America / Buildings Department / Department of Earth Sciences / Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics / University of Hong Kong / Society of Exploration / Government of the HKSAR / Univ. of California / Earthquake Research Institute / Centre for Environmental and Geotechnical Applications of Surface / Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Monash University / Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research / /
Person
Peter Davenport / David Dowrick / Gary Gibson / Chung Shum / John Wilson / Balendra / Euan Smith / /
Position
Geophysicists / Professor / Geophysicists / Tulsa / representative / Consultancy Agreement No. CAO / representative of the entire Hong Kong region / /
1. INTRODUCTION The attenuation behaviour of earthquake ground shaking is highly complex, but can be approximated by a series of “filters”, each of which represents a seismic wave generation (or modification) mechan