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The 1996 Duvall earthquake in Washington State triggered ground motion stations in the Fraser Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Recorded ground motions were used to examine the applicability of 1-D and 2-D site response analyses for amplification studies in the Delta. 1-D response analysis gave a good indication of the period of peak response, but response spectra were generally not satisfactory for engineering purposes. The use of 2-D analyses which included buried topography generally improved the predictions of site response spectra.
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Finn, W.D.L., Zhai, E., Thavaraj, T., Hao, XS., Ventura, C.E. (2001). Analysis Of Data From Strong Motion Network in Fraser Delta, British Columbia, Canada. In: Erdik, M., Celebi, M., Mihailov, V., Apaydin, N. (eds) Strong Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures. NATO Science Series, vol 373. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0696-5_30
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