| Abstract: | A four-level downhole array of three-component instruments was established on the southwest shore of San Francisco Bay to monitor the effect of the sediments on low-amplitude seismic ground motion. The deepest instrument is at a depth of 186 meters, two meters below the top of the Franciscan bedrock. Earthquake data from regional distances (29 km ≤ Δ ≤ 485 km) over a wide range of azimuths are compared with the predictions of a simple plane-layered model with material properties independently determined. Spectral ratios between the surface and bedrock computed for the one horizontal component of motion that was analyzed agree rather well with the model predictions; the model predicts the frequencies of the first three peaks within 10 percent in most cases and the height of the peaks within 50 percent in most cases. Surface time histories computed from the theoretical model predict the time variations of amplitude and frequency content reasonably well, but correlations of individual cycles cannot be made between observed and predicted traces. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 14388 |
| Citation Author: | Joyner, William B.; Warrick, Richard E.; Oliver, Adolph A. III |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park Science Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 36 p.; Appendix; Tables; Figures |
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| Citation Public Comments: | In cooperation with the Division of Reactor Research and Development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 76-296 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Analysis of seismograms from a downhole array in sediments near San Francisco Bay; 1976; OFR; 76-296; Joyner, William B.; Warrick, Richard E.; Oliver, Adolph A. III |
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| Text: | Analysis of seismograms from a downhole array in sediments near San Francisco Bay; 1976; OFR; 76-296; Joyner, William B.; Warrick, Richard E.; Oliver, Adolph A. III |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/ofr_76_296.gif |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1976/0296/ |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
