Strong Motion Information
Magnitude: 4.9
Date and time: 1997/06/23 19:13 UTC
Latitude: 47.5995, Longitude: -122.5725
Hypocentral Depth: 7.17 km
NOTE: The above values may have been changed since this
document was written
Contents
[ Station Map ]
[ Values ]
[ Parameter Definitions ]
[ Accelerograms ]
[ Station Locations ]
[ Station Photographs ]
Maps
Seattle area map with strong-motion
station locations and peak accelerations
from each component of each station.
Western Washington map with broadband
station locations and peak accelerations
from each component of each station.
Strong Motion Parameters
Strong Motion Parameters for each component of each station
STA | COMP | Dist (km) |
PGA (g) | Dur_BB (sec) | Dur_rel (sec) |
AI (sec) | SI(5%) (cm) | PGV (cm/sec) |
F_d (Hz) | BW (Hz) |
GNW | BHZ | 19.4 |
3.13e-03 | 0.0 | 11.1 |
6.18e-03 | 3.82e-01 | 1.18e-01 |
4.3 | 0.1 |
GNW | BHN | 19.4 |
5.79e-03 | 0.0 | 13.6 |
8.69e-03 | 3.24e-01 | 1.42e-01 |
5.2 | 0.1 |
GNW | BHE | 19.4 |
9.69e-03 | 0.0 | 7.3 |
2.43e-02 | 5.69e-01 | 3.18e-01 |
3.5 | 0.1 |
SEA | ELZ | 20.8 |
2.67e-03 | 0.0 | 37.5 |
3.30e-02 | 1.38e+00 | 3.56e-01 |
1.2 | 0.3 |
SEA | ELN | 20.8 |
4.26e-03 | 0.0 | 35.7 |
4.04e-02 | 1.68e+00 | 4.48e-01 |
1.2 | 0.7 |
SEA | ELE | 20.8 |
4.69e-03 | 0.0 | 34.0 |
6.26e-02 | 2.05e+00 | 5.05e-01 |
2.3 | 0.2 |
MPL | ELZ | 32.6 |
1.48e-03 | 0.0 | 23.3 |
3.61e-03 | 3.25e-01 | 1.09e-01 |
5.1 | 0.4 |
MPL | ELN | 32.6 |
4.48e-03 | 0.0 | 12.3 |
2.87e-02 | 6.71e-01 | 2.25e-01 |
2.8 | 0.9 |
MPL | ELE | 32.6 |
3.64e-03 | 0.0 | 15.7 |
1.96e-02 | 8.55e-01 | 2.25e-01 |
2.5 | 1.2 |
UPS | ELZ | 37.8 |
1.74e-03 | 0.0 | 26.9 |
5.59e-03 | 2.86e-01 | 8.62e-02 |
3.5 | 1.4 |
UPS | ELN | 37.8 |
2.92e-03 | 0.0 | 26.3 |
6.73e-03 | 5.09e-01 | 2.05e-01 |
3.9 | 1.3 |
UPS | ELE | 37.8 |
1.18e-03 | 0.0 | 31.0 |
3.62e-03 | 3.68e-01 | 1.01e-01 |
3.1 | 0.6 |
TTW | BHZ | 67.3 |
5.43e-04 | 0.0 | 28.2 |
7.22e-04 | 9.57e-02 | 2.44e-02 |
2.8 | 0.1 |
TTW | BHN | 67.3 |
1.18e-03 | 0.0 | 24.4 |
2.15e-03 | 1.98e-01 | 4.93e-02 |
2.6 | 0.0 |
TTW | BHE | 67.3 |
1.72e-03 | 0.0 | 28.0 |
2.57e-03 | 1.92e-01 | 6.92e-02 |
2.7 | 0.1 |
RWW | BHZ | 102.0 |
3.84e-04 | 0.0 | 49.7 |
2.91e-04 | 9.60e-02 | 2.57e-02 |
0.7 | 0.0 |
RWW | BHN | 102.0 |
1.05e-03 | 0.0 | 22.5 |
1.47e-03 | 1.62e-01 | 6.10e-02 |
3.6 | 0.1 |
RWW | BHE | 102.0 |
7.30e-04 | 0.0 | 32.5 |
1.08e-03 | 1.47e-01 | 3.95e-02 |
3.8 | 0.0 |
LON | BHZ | 110.8 |
7.85e-05 | 0.0 | 36.9 |
3.25e-05 | 2.04e-02 | 4.59e-03 |
5.7 | 0.1 |
LON | BHN | 110.8 |
1.62e-04 | 0.0 | 27.5 |
8.50e-05 | 2.82e-02 | 8.19e-03 |
9.6 | 0.1 |
LON | BHE | 110.8 |
2.00e-04 | 0.0 | 21.6 |
7.38e-05 | 2.70e-02 | 8.69e-03 |
1.7 | 0.1 |
LTY | BHZ | 149.0 |
1.45e-05 | 0.0 | 37.5 |
1.88e-07 | 2.42e-03 | 6.03e-04 |
1.6 | 0.1 |
LTY | BHN | 149.0 |
1.09e-05 | 0.0 | 27.7 |
2.47e-07 | 2.65e-03 | 8.63e-04 |
2.0 | 0.1 |
LTY | BHE | 149.0 |
2.14e-05 | 0.0 | 21.0 |
4.12e-07 | 4.43e-03 | 1.87e-03 |
1.7 | 0.1 |
Parameter Definitions
-
STA
- The 3 letter station designation.
Station locations are shown in the
map and are
listed in a station table.
-
COMP
- Component flag.
Each station has a tri-axial accelerometer for measuring motions
in the vertical (Z), north-south (N) , and east-west (E) directions.
The "EL" part of the component indicates that the data are from an
accelerometer with a high sample rate (here 100 samples per second).
A "BH" or "HH" indicates that the data are from a broadband velocity sensor.
These component designations conform to the SEED format specification.
-
Dist
- Surface distance from the earthquake epicenter to
the recording station.
-
PGA
- Peak ground acceleration. Note that these values are
expressed in scientific notation. As an example, a value of
5.1e-02 means 5.1 x 10^(-02) = 5.1 x 0.01 = 0.051 or 51 milli-g.
-
Dur_BB
- The Bolt-bracketed duration is the measure of time
between the first and last exceedence of 0.05 g's.
A listed value of 0.0 indicates that the
ground motion never exceeded the 0.05g threshold.
-
Dur_rel
- The relative duration does not depend on the peak values.
It is the time interval between the points at which 0.05% and
0.95% of the total energy has been recorded.
-
AI
- The Arias Intensity is a measure of the total energy at
the recording station and is proportional to the sum of
the acceleration squared.
It is defined as pi/(2g) * dt * sum(a[n]*a[n]),
where dt is the sample interval
and a[n] is the nth acceleration value.
-
SI
- The Spectrum Intensity for 5% damping.
It is defined as the integral of the psuedo-Spectral velocity curve
(also known as the velocity response spectrum),
integrated between periods of 0.1 - 2.5 seconds.
These quanitities are motivated by the need to examine the
response of structures to ground motion. Structures are
modeled with a sequence of harmonic oscillators with 5% viscous
damping and having varying natural frequencies.
The ground motion is used as a forcing function on the
oscillators and the resulting displacement is calculated.
The peak displacement and natural period of each oscillator
form a data point for the Spectral Displacement curve.
Multiplying each data point by omega (2 * pi / natural_period ) gives
the psuedo-Spectral Velocity curve, or the velocity response
spectrum.
-
PGV
- Peak ground velocity; determined by integrating the
acceleration time-series using the trapezoidal rule.
-
F_d
- Dominant frequency of ground motion;
defined as the frequency corresponding
to the peak value in the amplitude spectrum.
Thus, F_d indicates the
frequency for which
the ground motion has the most energy.
The amplitude spectrum has been smoothed
before determining F_d and BW.
-
BW
- Bandwidth of the dominant frequency;
measured where the amplitude
falls to 0.707 (1 / square root of 2) of the amplitude of the
dominant frequency.
Again, this is based on a smoothed amplitude spectrum.
Accelerograms
Click on each station name to view the accelerogram;
each accelerogram has peak values listed in the upper right
- SEA, University of Washington, Seattle.
(Vertical scale and peak values are too small by a factor of 2).
- MPL, BPA Maple Valley Power Station.
(Vertical scale and peak values are too small by a factor of 2).
- UPS, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma.
(Vertical scale and peak values are too small by a factor of 2).
One can also obtain accelerograms from broadband sensors
by removing instrument response.
- GNW, Green Mountain, west of Bremerton.
Station Locations
Here is a
table
showing station coordinates and sensor information.
Station Photographs
UPS - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma.
SPW - Seward Park, Seattle.
Last modified Mon Dec 29 09:25:23 PST 1997
The information presented in this document is preliminary.
It will be modified after additional
analysis of the accelerograms.
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