GROUND SHAKING HAZARD, AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN LAND-USE PLANNING

This paper presents empirical data recorded in the Glendale, California, area from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and aftershock sequence. These data depict the relative ground shaking in the Glendale area and provide information that can be used in the land-use planning process. An eleven-station seismic array of L-7 velocity seismographs was deployed following the earthquake. All of the seismographs in the array, except two, Griffith Park Observatory and Brand Park fire road, were located on alluvium of varying thickness.

• Corporate Authors:

  California Division of Mines and Geology

  P.O. Box 2980
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95812
• Authors:
  • Hays, W W
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1-7

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Earthquakes; Geological surveying; Geophysics; Land use; Land use planning; Regional planning; Seismicity; Seismographs
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Seismographic methods (Soil surveys)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Geotechnology; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165190
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Special Rpt. No. 129
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1978 12:00AM