Soil Liquefaction Effects in the Central Business District during the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake

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Research Article| November 01, 2011 Soil Liquefaction Effects in the Central Business District during the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake Misko Cubrinovski; Misko Cubrinovski Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Jonathan D. Bray; Jonathan D. Bray Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 2University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Merrick Taylor; Merrick Taylor Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Simona Giorgini; Simona Giorgini Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Brendon Bradley; Brendon Bradley Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Liam Wotherspoon; Liam Wotherspoon Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 3University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Joshua Zupan Joshua Zupan Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) 2University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Misko Cubrinovski 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Jonathan D. Bray 2University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Merrick Taylor 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Simona Giorgini 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Brendon Bradley 1University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Liam Wotherspoon 3University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Joshua Zupan 2University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [e-mail] (M. C.) Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2011 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2011) 82 (6): 893–904. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.82.6.893 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Misko Cubrinovski, Jonathan D. Bray, Merrick Taylor, Simona Giorgini, Brendon Bradley, Liam Wotherspoon, Joshua Zupan; Soil Liquefaction Effects in the Central Business District during the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters 2011;; 82 (6): 893–904. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.82.6.893 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search During the period between September 2010 and June 2011, the city of Christchurch was strongly shaken by a series of earthquakes that included the 4 September 2010 (Mw = 7.1), 26 December 2010 (Mw = 4.8), 22 February 2011 (Mw = 6.2), and 13 June 2011 (Mw = 5.3 and Mw = 6.0) earthquakes. The moment magnitude (Mw) values adopted in this paper are taken from GNS Science, New Zealand (http://www.geonet.org.nz); they are 0.1 units higher than the corresponding Mw values reported by the U.S.... 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