Sentence examples for conventional earthquake from inspiring English sources

Conventional earthquake designs have ensured stability within the conventional safety standards effective against small-to mid-scale seismic forces.

The applied method is useful to estimate a gross feature of the earthquake sequence occurring immediately after a large earthquake, for which conventional earthquake relocation technique based on the phase picking does not work well.

Buildings designed with conventional ductile earthquake-resisting structural systems are expected to provide life safety performance, but they rely on significant structural damage to dissipate the seismic energy.

The application of the new FDD presents a feasible alternative to the conventional ductility-based earthquake-resistant design both for new construction and for upgrading existing structures.

The application of the new EFD presents a feasible alternative to the conventional ductility-based earthquake-resistant design for both new construction and upgrading existing structures.

The rocking pier suffers significantly less total drift than the conventional pier in the Rinaldi earthquake (31 cm, or Δ/ h ≈ 0.3%, against 47 cm, or Δ/ h ≈ 0.4%).

We believe that the 2011 megathrust earthquake was not a conventional great earthquake, which had been thought to be confined only to multiple Segments B, C, D and E in the island-arc direction.

A basic assumption of conventional seismic hazard methodology is that earthquake sources are time independent (i.e., random distribution in time).

By the end of Earthquake Scenario B, the conventional pier was subjected to twice the deck drift (≈63 cm) associated with the rocking alternative.

Recent earthquakes have revealed that conventional seismic design philosophy allows for large levels of nonstructural damage.

"We had the feeling it was a conventional crisis, like a flood or an earthquake," he said.