Papers from Japan

Plenary: STRONG MOTION CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR DAMAGE IMPACT TO STRUCTURES DURING THE OFF PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE OF MARCH 11, 2011: HOW EXTRAORDINARY WAS THIS M9.0 EARTHQUAKE?, Hiroshi Kawase.

Plenary: NONLINEARITY IN SITE RESPONSE - NONLINEAR VOLUMETRIC MECHANISM, Susumu Iai, Tetsuo Tobita, and Tomotaka Iwata.

1.1 SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION FEATURES OF PSEUDO VELOCITY RESPONSE FROM THE 2011 OFF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE (Mw9.1) AND ITS INTRASLAB AFTERSHOCK (Mw7.1), Nobuo Takai and Tsutomu Sasatani.

1.3 SCALING OF SHORT-PERIOD SPECTRAL LEVEL OF ACCELERATION SOURCE SPECTRA FOR AFTERSHOCKS AND FORESHOCKS OF THE 2011 OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE, Toshimi Satoh.

1.4 PROPOSAL FO EXTENDED STRONG-MOTION ESTIMATION METHOD BASED ON SITE AMPLIFICATION AND PHASE CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE 2011 TOHOKU, JAPAN, EARTHQUAKE, Atsushi Wakai and Atsushi Nozu.

1.13 LONG-PERIOD (3 TO 10S) GROUND MOTIONS IN AND AROUND THE LOS ANGELES BASIN DURING THE Mw7.2 EL MAYOR-CUCAPAH EARTHQUAKEOF APRIL 4,2010, Ken Hatayama and Erol Kalkan.

2.1 DEFINITION OF NORMALIZED ENERGY DENSITY AND ITS APPLICATION TO DIRECT ESTIMATION OF DAMPING PROPERTY, Hiroyuki Goto, Sumio Sawada, Yuichi Kawamura, Toshiyuki Hirai, and Takashi Akazawa.

2.5 SITE-RESPONSE ESTIMATION BY 1D HETEROGENEOUS VELOCITY MODEL USING BOREHOLE LOG AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO DAMPING FACTOR, Hiroaki Sato and Hiroaki Yamanaka.

2.6 SEISMIC VERTICAL ARRAY ANALYSIS: PHASE DECOMPOSITION FOR S AND SURFACE WAVES, Kunikazu Yoshida.

2.15 STRONG GROUND MOTIONS IN THE SAPPORO METROPOLITAN AREA DURING THE 2010 CENTRAL ISHIKARI EARTHQUAKE, Michiko Shigefuji, Tsutomu Sasatani, and Nobuo Takai.

2.21 ESTIMATION OF INTERSTATION GREEN'S FUNCTIONS IN THE LONG-PERIOD RANGE (2 - 10S) FROM CONTINUOUS RECORDS OF F-NET BROADBAND SEISMOGRAPH NETWORK IN SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN, Kimiyuki Asano, Asako Iwaki, and Tomotaka Iwata.

2.22 TESTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL BASIN STRUCTURE MODEL OF THE OSAKA BASIN, JAPAN, ESTIMATED BY WAVEFORM INVERSION, Asako Iwaki and Tomotaka Iwata.

2.24 PERIOD-DEPENDENT SITE AMPLIFICATION FOR THE 2008 IWATE-MIYAGI NAIRIKU, JAPAN, EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE, Rami Ibrahim, Kazuki Koketsu, and Hiroe Miyake.

3.5 TUNING THE DEEP VELOCITY STRUCTURE MODEL OF THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA BASED ON 1-D SIMULATION OF LONG-PERIOD S-WAVES, Yadab Prasad Dhakal, Hiroaki Yamanaka, and Tsutomu Sasatani.

3.6 CONSTRUCTION OF PROCEDURE OF STRONG GROUND MOTION PREDICTION FOR INTRASLAB EARTHQUAKES BASED ON CHARACTERIZED SOURCE MODEL, Tomotaka Iwata, Kimiyuki Asano, and Haruko Sekiguchi.

3.8 BROADBAND GROUND MOTION SIMULATION FOR GREAT INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES WITH MULTI-SCALE HETEROGENEOUS SOURCE MODELING, Haruko Sekiguchi, Masayuki Yoshimi, and Haruo Horikawa.

3.12 ESTIMATION OF SLIP SCENARIOS FOR MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES: A CASE STUDY FOR PERU, Nelson Pulido, Hernando Tavera, Hugo Perfettini, Mohamed Chlieh, Zenon Aguilar, Shin Aoi, Shoichi Nakai, and Fumio Yamazaki.

3.13 BROADBAND STRONG GROUND MOTION PREDICTION FOR HYPOTHETICAL TONANKAI EARTHQUAKE USING STATISTICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS METHOD AND SUBSEQUENT BUILDING DAMAGE EVALUATION, Baoyintu, Hiroshi Kawase, and Shinichi Matsushima.

3.14 MODELING 3D VELOCITY STRUCTURE IN THE FAULT REGION OF THE 2007 NIIGATAKEN CHUETU-OKI EARTHQUAKE WITH FOLDING STRUCTURE, Kenichi Tsuda, Takashi Hayakawa, Tomiichi Uetake, Kazuhito Hikima, Ryoichi Tokumitsu, Hideki Nagumo, and Yoshiaki Shiba.

3.20 WAVE PROPAGATION ANALYSIS OF A GROUND WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL IRREGULARITIES BASED ON THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, Shoichi Nakai and Hiroto Nakagawa.

3.22 STUDY OF THE APPLICABILITY OF NON-JACOBIAN ITERATION METHOD FOR MODELING OF THE UPPERMOST CRUSTAL LAYER, Anatoly Petukhim, Takao Kagawa, Kazuki Koketsu, Hiroe Miyake, Satoko Murotani, Ken Miyakoshi, Tetsu Masuda, and Naoto Inoe.

4.13 http://esg4.eri.ucsb.edu/sites/esg4.eri.ucsb.edu/files/4.13 Nakano et al.pdf">COMPUTATION OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSES OF AN ECCENTRIC STRUCTURE USING GREEN'S FUNCTIONS RETRIEVED FROM MICROTREMORS, Kenichi Nakano, Masahiko Miyoshi, and Masanori Horike.

4.14 STRONG MOTION ESTIMATION AT THE MATSURUBE BRIDGE FOR THE 2008 IWATE-MIYAGI NAIRIKU EARTHQUAKE BASED ON EMPIRICAL SITE AMPLIFICATION AND PHASE EFFECTS, Yoshiya Hata, Atsushi Nozu, and Susumu Nakamura.

5.4 SPATIAL VARIATION OF SITE EFFECT IN HIROO TOWN, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN, Takahiro Maeda, Nobuo Takai, and Tsutomu Sasatani.

5.6 TOMOGRAPHIC ESTIMATION OF SURFACE-WAVE GROUP VELOCITY USING SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY IN SOUTHERN KANTO, JAPAN, Kosuke Chimoto and Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.12 ESTIMATION OF VELOCITY DISCONTINUITIES IN SEDIMENT OF YOKOHAMA REGION BY APPLYING NONSTATIONARY RAY DECOMPOSITION METHOD TO YOKOHAMA ARRAY RECORDINGS, Makiko Takagishi and Shigeo Kinoshita.

5.13 APPLICATION OF MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD IN INVERSION OF SURFACE-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY, Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.14 DEEP SEDIMENTARY LAYERS IN METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES ESTIMATED WITH THE JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTION AND SURFACE-WAVE DISPERSION, Rhommel Grutas and Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.18 THE EFFECT OF LATERAL HETEROGENEITY ON H/V SPECTRAL RATIO OF MICROTREMORS CONFIRMED FROM OBSERVATION AND SYNTHETICS, Shinichi Matsushima, Takanori Hirokawa, Hiroshi Kawase, and Francisco J. Sancez-Sesma.

5.19 MICROTREMOR BASED JOINT INVERSION FOR ESTIMATING S-WAVE VELOCITY PROFILE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL IRREGULAR GROUND, Hiroto Nakagawa and Shoichi Nakai.

5.24 A STUDY ON THE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE USING MICROTREMORS AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE OSAKA PLAIN, Koki Tobita, Hiroshi Kawase, and Shinichi Matsushima.

5.26 DEEP S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURES IN THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA ESTIMATED BY THE H/V SPECTRAL RATIO USING CODA WAVES, Seiji Tsuno, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Shin-ichi Sakai, Naoshi Hirata, Keiji Kasahara, Hisanori Kimura, and Tamotsu Aketagawa.

5.28 APPLICATION OF THE H/V SPECTRAL RATIOS FOR EARTHQUAKE AND MICROTREMOR GROUND MOTIONS, Hiroshi Kawase, Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma, and Shinichi Matsushima.

5.29 MICROTREMOR EXPLORATION AT SEVEN STRONG MOTION STATIONS IN CHILE, Shunichi Kataoka.

6.7 ESTIMATION OF SITE EFFECTS BASED ON RECORDED DATA AND THE GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION RELATIONSHIP, Hongjun Si, H. Serdar Kuyuk, Kazuki Koketsu, Hiroe Miyake, and Rami Ibrahim.