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Quake in Hawaii

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JAE

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Jun 27, 2000
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Here's a link to the news:

6.6 in Hawaii

From the IBC maps it appears that the epicenter location shown on the crude news maps does show a higher than normal Ss (varying from about .150 to .192) and S1 (varying from 0.06 to .088).

This seems to put it into a Seismic Design Category of B (with a site class D). Seems like a fairly high shock for a B.



 
JAE, I think you have your decimal point shifted one place. The big island is high seismic territory (Zone 4 in UBC terminology). More like SDC D or E.
 
gulp...you are probably right...I was looking at it early in the morning without my glasses....

 
OK...with eyesight -

Ss = 1.92
S1 = .88

w/ site class D - SDC = E

my bad.

 
and having actually experienced the "shake" it was a good size. Not the magnitude and duration of the 7.9 shake I experienced in 1993 in Guam, but good enough for a Sunday morning in paradise!
 
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