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Figure 5: VS30-distance-region distribution of selected recordings. Closed symbols indicated<br />

measured values, open symbols indicate inferred values. NEHRP site classes are indicated along the<br />

bottom edge.<br />

Additional analysis was per<strong>for</strong>med as part of this study to improve the correlation between<br />

surface geology <strong>and</strong> VS30 <strong>for</strong> the Taiwan sites. This analysis is described in Appendix C.<br />

Additional velocity measurements <strong>and</strong> incorporation of elevation as a predictor variable were<br />

used to refine the VS30 estimates <strong>for</strong> the Taiwan sites.<br />

The data distributions plotted on Figures 4 <strong>and</strong> 5 indicate that the <strong>PEER</strong>-<strong>NGA</strong> database is<br />

primarily a soil/soft rock database.<br />

Sediment Thickness: The thickness of the near-surface sediments is represented by the<br />

depths to shear eave velocity horizons of 1.0, 1.5, <strong>and</strong> 2.5 km/s. These data are only<br />

available in the <strong>PEER</strong>-<strong>NGA</strong> database <strong>for</strong> sites within the Southern Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Earthquake<br />

Center 3-D basin model (Magistrale et al., 2000, 200?) <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> sites in the San Francisco Bay<br />

area (J. Boatwright, personal communication, 2005?). Figure 6 shows the relationship<br />

between VS30 <strong>and</strong> Z1.0 <strong>and</strong> between VS30 <strong>and</strong> Z2.5. The dashed line shows the relationship used<br />

to infer missing values of Z1.0.<br />

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