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Links for UCLA C&EE 245 course, Winter 2010

Links last tested on November 2009

UCLA library
Science and Engineering Library (SEL) Article databases in CE (many journals available online when accessed from UCLA or a proxy/VPN)
Links below relate to Seismic Hazard, Earthquake Databases, Engineering Reports, etc.
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) NGA Motion Database Strong Motion Database (Pre-NGA) PEER Report Series Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program (Post-earthquake assessment program) Publications Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Earthquake Catalogs and Seismic Data Clickable fault map OpenSHA (Seismic Hazard Analysis made simple and - most importantly - accessible) United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake pages (A very well organized website with lots of info) Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Recent earthquakes in CA-NV Did you feel it? Intensity maps are created based on voluntary input - please participate when it shakes!!! Real-time 24 hour earthquake forecast GPS displacement monitoring Quaternary fault database National Map Viewer (customize the view with specific layers) Focal mechanisms - explanation of the beachball diagrams (USGS) Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP and UCERF 2007) Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) CGS (California Geological Survey) Earthquakes Main Page California Seismic Hazards Mapping Programs Alquist-Priolo Act National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Natural Hazards California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN)
MatLab Resources
Online MatLab tutorials (for version 5, but basics are still very useful)
Cool animations and figures, and popular science
Daniel A. Russel wave animations (includes Rayleigh, reflected waves with different boundary conditions, fourier series, etc.) Exploratorium Life along the Fault Line
Other Links and Resources
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (U. of Berkeley, CA) Seismological Laboratory at CalTech Surfing the net for Earthquake Data (U. of Washington) (Contains A LOT of EQ links, by country) USA Relief maps
A few selected references (figures in hand-outs and general references)
Bolt, B. (2005). “Earthquakes”, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, NY. Chopra, A. K. (2000). "Dynamics of Structures", Prentcie Hall, Upper Saddle, River, NJ. Devore, J.L. (2007). Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 7th edition. Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA (I have the sixth edition and it's fine). Hough, S.E. (2002). “Earth Shaking Science”, Princeton University Press. Kramer, S. L. (1996). “Geotechnical earthquake engineering”, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle, River, NJ. McGuire, R.K. (2004). “Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis”, EERI Monograph Series, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA., MNO-10.

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