Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
13 Mar 1991, 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Abstract
This paper describes the most relevant effects of the September 1985 earthquakes on Mexico City. It discusses the results of recent exploration and research on regional geology, local site conditions and site response analyses, basic soil properties, and observation of actual behavior of soil-foundation-structure systems. The paper shows the impact of these investigations upon new - building code requirements, on general design practice and on the specialist's perception of earthquake behavior of Mexico City's subsoil. Recent earthquakes recorded in and around Mexico City have contributed insight into some of the unresolved questions left after the experience of 1985. Damaging earthquakes recorded in other cities in the near past are brought into the discussion. The latter events furnish- by means of the examples of San Salvador in 1986, Armenia in 1988 and San Francisco in 1989 - more general view of the influence of local subsoil conditions on site response.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Rosenblueth, Emilio and Ovando, Efrain, "Geotechnical Lessons Learned from Mexico and Other Recent Earthquakes" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 11.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session14/11
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Geotechnical Lessons Learned from Mexico and Other Recent Earthquakes
St. Louis, Missouri
This paper describes the most relevant effects of the September 1985 earthquakes on Mexico City. It discusses the results of recent exploration and research on regional geology, local site conditions and site response analyses, basic soil properties, and observation of actual behavior of soil-foundation-structure systems. The paper shows the impact of these investigations upon new - building code requirements, on general design practice and on the specialist's perception of earthquake behavior of Mexico City's subsoil. Recent earthquakes recorded in and around Mexico City have contributed insight into some of the unresolved questions left after the experience of 1985. Damaging earthquakes recorded in other cities in the near past are brought into the discussion. The latter events furnish- by means of the examples of San Salvador in 1986, Armenia in 1988 and San Francisco in 1989 - more general view of the influence of local subsoil conditions on site response.
