The near-source strong-motion accelerograms recorded by an experimental array in Tangshan, China

Peng, K.; Xie, L.; Li, S.; Boore, D. M.; Iwan, W. D.; Teng, T. L.

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A joint research project on strong-motion earthquake studies between the People‘s Republic of China and the United States is in progress. As a part of this project, an experimental strong-motion array, consisting of twelve Kinemetrics PDR-1 Digital Event Recorders, was deployed in the meizoseismal area of the Ms = 7.8 Tangshan earthquake of July 28, 1976. These instruments have automatic gain ranging, a specified dynamic range of 102 dB, a 2.5 s pre-event memory, programmable triggering, and are equipped with TCG-1B Time Code Generators with a stability of 3 parts in 107 over a range of 0-50??C. In 2 y of operation beginning July, 1982 a total of 603 near-source 3-component accelerograms were gathered from 243 earthquakes of magnitude ML = 1.2-5.3. Most of these accelerograms have recorded the initial P-wave. The configuration of the experimental array and a representative set of near-source strong-motion accelerograms are presented in this paper. The set of accelerograms exhibited were obtained during the ML = 5.3 Lulong earthquake of October 19, 1982, when digital event recorders were triggered. The epicentral distances ranged from 4 to 41 km and the corresponding range of peak horizontal accelerations was 0.232g to 0.009g. A preliminary analysis of the data indicates that compared to motions in the western United States, the peak acceleration attenuates much more rapidly in the Tangshan area. The scaling of peak acceleration with magnitude, however, is similar in the two regions. Data at more distant sites are needed to confirm the more rapid attenuation. ?? 1985.

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Peng, K.; Xie, L.; Li, S.; Boore, D. M.; Iwan, W. D.; Teng, T. L.

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The near-source strong-motion accelerograms recorded by an experimental array in Tangshan, China; 1985; Article; Journal; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Peng, K.; Xie, L.; Li, S.; Boore, D. M.; Iwan, W. D.; Teng, T. L.