Location

San Diego, California

Presentation Date

27 May 2010, 8:00 am - 8:45 am

Abstract

An extensive site investigation study was carried out in the European side of Istanbul as part of the large-scale microzonation project for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. 2912 borings mostly down to 30m depth with approximately 250m spacing were conducted within an area of 182 sqkm to investigate local site conditions. 55 stations of the Istanbul Rapid Response Network and Ataköy vertical array are located in this area. There have been few small earthquakes in the recent years with local magnitude slightly over M=4. One of these earthquakes took place on 12/3/2008 in Yalova with local magnitude of M=4.8. Vertical array stations at 4 levels (ground surface, at depths of 50m, 75m and 140m) and 23 of the 55 Istanbul Rapid Response Network stations recorded this earthquake. Based on the recorded acceleration time histories on the engineering bedrock at Ataköy vertical array, the remaining recorded acceleration time histories are modeled based on empirical site amplification relationships proposed by Borcherdt (1994) and based on a modified version of Shake91 (Idriss and Sun, 1992). An attempt is also made to model the recorded acceleration time histories during the Mw=7.4, 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake recorded at Ataköy, Fatih and Zeytinburnu stations located in the same area.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Modeling the Observed Site Response from Istanbul Strong Motion Network

San Diego, California

An extensive site investigation study was carried out in the European side of Istanbul as part of the large-scale microzonation project for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. 2912 borings mostly down to 30m depth with approximately 250m spacing were conducted within an area of 182 sqkm to investigate local site conditions. 55 stations of the Istanbul Rapid Response Network and Ataköy vertical array are located in this area. There have been few small earthquakes in the recent years with local magnitude slightly over M=4. One of these earthquakes took place on 12/3/2008 in Yalova with local magnitude of M=4.8. Vertical array stations at 4 levels (ground surface, at depths of 50m, 75m and 140m) and 23 of the 55 Istanbul Rapid Response Network stations recorded this earthquake. Based on the recorded acceleration time histories on the engineering bedrock at Ataköy vertical array, the remaining recorded acceleration time histories are modeled based on empirical site amplification relationships proposed by Borcherdt (1994) and based on a modified version of Shake91 (Idriss and Sun, 1992). An attempt is also made to model the recorded acceleration time histories during the Mw=7.4, 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake recorded at Ataköy, Fatih and Zeytinburnu stations located in the same area.