Webinar - Earthquake Site Effects (Kentucky Geological Survey)
Thinking about earthquake site affects in your design?
Learn how resonance can cause significant damage to buildings and infrastructure in areas underlain by soft sediments. It is known that communities in central and eastern US, along the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys are underlain by soft sediments overlying hard bedrock sediment-bedrock impedance contrast. Join us to learn from Dr. Wang about parameters or proxies to quantify site effects in your design. Also learn about important take-a-ways from science and engineering study of site effect, site resonance in particular.
Zhenming Wang, Ph.D., P.E. has been the head of the Geologic Hazard Section, the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky, since 2006 and is an Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UK. He is leading a research and service group on the geologic hazards at the Kentucky Geological Survey. Prior to that he worked as a geophysicist in the Fujian Earthquake Administration in Fuzhou, Fujian, China from 1982 to 1991, and as a geotechnical specialist in the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industry in Portland, Oregon from 1997 to 2001. He also has served on committees and panels in dealing with applied geophysics, earthquake engineering, geologic hazards, and hazard mitigation in the United States, China, Italy, and Switzerland.
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