Los Angeles Code-Instrumented Building Records from the Northridge, California Earthquake of January 17 1994: Processed Release No. 1

​OSMS 94-17

by R. Darragh, T. Cao, V. Graizer, A. Shakal and M. Huang

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Introduction

The California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (CSMIP) is cooperating with the City of Los Angeles and other agencies to recover accelerograms from instruments required by the City's Building Code. The digitized and processed records obtained from instruments located in twenty Code buildings, that recorded the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994, are included in this first release. All twenty stations are located in the City of Los Angeles, mainly in the San Fernando Valley, West Los Angeles and Century City areas (Figure 1). Additional details and background on instrumentation required by the Uniform Building Code, as adopted by the City of Los Angeles, are discussed in a following section.

The name and station number for the twenty Code-instrumented buildings are: