GIRS-2025-06: Sub-Regional Site Response of San Francisco Bay Area

By: Jonathan P. Stewart, Shako Mohammed, Tristan E. Buckreis, Scott J. Brandenberg, Chukwuebuka C. Nweke, and Rashid Shams.
DOI: 10.34948/N3HS3Q

ABSTRACT: We develop a site response model specific to the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) sub-region of California. Within the context of California geology as a whole, the SFBA sub-region has a unique features including shallow (shelf) sediments over basement rock in the areas surrounding San Francisco Bay, numerous basins produced by fault-bounded down-dropped blocks, and one basin (Livermore) that includes both Quaternary and Tertiary surface materials.

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