OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Earthquake Spectra is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Damped rigid substructure system for seismic protection of structures	110
Erratum to NGA-east ground-motion characterization model part I: Summary of products and model development. Earthquake Spectra 37(S1): 1231–1282. DOI: 10.1177/87552930211018723	66
Empirical ground-motion basin response in the California Great Valley, Reno, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon	62
Front Matter	62
Book review: ¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground ReddyElizabeth. ¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023, xii + 214 pp., $40.00 (soft-cover, digital version availab	61
An algorithm for spectrally matching bi-directional ground motions to a target RotD100 spectrum while maintaining the radial spectral acceleration pattern	42
Site characterization at Treasure Island and Delaney Park downhole arrays by heterogeneous data assimilation	40
An algorithm to calibrate analytical models of multi-story buildings from vibration records	40
Characterizing uncertainty of general building stock exposure data	38
Host-region parameters for an adjustable model for crustal earthquakes to facilitate the implementation of the backbone approach to building ground-motion logic trees in probabilistic seismic hazard a	37
Assessment of urban seismic resilience of a town in Eastern Turkiye: Turkoglu, Kahramanmaras before and after 6 February 2023 M 7.8 Kahramanmaras earthquake	32
Seismic fragility assessment of reinforced concrete wall buildings in Colombia: Insights and implications for earthquake-resistant design	31
Shake table testing of a full-scale three-story seismically resilient steel-framed building with reconfigurable lateral force-resisting systems	30
Front Matter	30
City-scale buildings damage estimation based on broadband physics-based ground motion simulation of 2021 M _s 6.4 Yangbi, China, earthquake	28
Data set from quasi-static cyclic tests of scoured 2 × 3 pile-group foundations for bridge structures	27
Modeling future economic costs and interdependent industry recovery after earthquakes	24
Shear wave velocity and site period measurements for the western portion of the Mexico City Basin following the Mw7.1 2017 Puebla–Morelos, Mexico, earthquake	24
From information to public preparedness in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Examining risk communication outcomes in Metropolitan Portland, OR	23
Data-Driven Insights Into Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Findings: 2023 Türkiye Earthquake Sequence	23
An updated strong-motion database of Türkiye (SMD-TR)	22
Performance evaluation of the USGS velocity model for the San Francisco Bay Area	21
Seismic performance and damage assessment of bridges during the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Türkiye earthquakes (Mw = 7.8, Mw = 7.6)	21
Performance of water systems during the February 6th Kahramanmaras earthquakes	21
Characteristics of effective California earthquake scenarios	19

An equivalent point-source stochastic model of the NGA-East ground-motion models	19
Motivators and impediments to seismic retrofit implementation for wood-frame soft-story buildings: A case study in California	19
Spectral matching RotD100: Effects on bidirectional lateral demand of reinforced concrete frame buildings	18
Probabilistic approach for seismic microzonation integrating 3D geological and geotechnical uncertainty	18
Seismic risk assessments for real estate portfolios: Impact of engineering investigation on quality of seismic risk studies	18
Geotechnical reconnaissance of an extensive cover-collapse sinkhole phenomena of 2020–2021 Petrinja earthquake sequence (Central Croatia)	17
Methodology for determination of seismic force modification factors in Canada: Performance-based unified procedure	17
A closer look at hazard-consistent ground motion record selection for building-specific risk assessment: Effect of soil characteristics and accelerograms’ scaling	17
A database of ground motion recordings, site profiles, and amplification factors from the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands	17
National liquefaction loss database and event-level fragility functions	16
Effect of soft sediments modeling on the seismic response of a 3D mid-rise RC building: high-resolution physics-based ground-motion simulations and empirical factors	15
Spectral scaling method using transfer functions for site-specific ground motion simulations	15
Damping capability enhancement of the polyurethane seismic isolation device for HV post insulators and its numerical evaluation with the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye Earthquake Sequence	15
WITHDRAWAL – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Vs-0 Correction Factors for Input Ground Motions used in Seismic Site Response Analyses	15
Hybrid broadband ground-motion simulation validation of small-magnitude subduction earthquakes in New Zealand	15
Probabilistic seismic damage and loss assessment methodology for wastewater network incorporating modeling uncertainty and damage correlations	14
An analytical model for 2D seismic tunnel-aboveground structure interaction with considering the influence of tunnel longitudinal shear deformation	14
Liquefaction-induced ground and building interactions in İskenderun from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence	14
Erratum	14
An equivalent damping ratio that accounts for ground-motion spectral shape for displacement-based design of flag-shaped hysteresis systems	14
Data-driven seismic response prediction of structural components	14
Priority analysis framework for equitable seismic and energy-efficiency renovation of residential buildings applied to mainland Portugal	14
Toward functional recovery performance in the seismic design of modern tall buildings	14
Quantifying the potential benefits of risk-mitigation strategies on present and future seismic losses in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal	14
Machine learning–based ground motion models for shallow crustal earthquakes in active tectonic regions	14
Site-specific adjustment framework for incremental dynamic analysis (SAF-IDA)	13
Seismic performance assessment of medical equipment using experimentally validated rolling and toppling nonlinear models	13
A model for partially dependent component damage fragilities in seismic risk analysis	13
Tsunami hazard evaluation of river embankment structures incorporating their vulnerability to seismic strong motion	13
Corrigendum	12
Identifying viable financing mechanisms for post-earthquake housing reconstruction in Canada: Case study of a M7 earthquake in British Columbia	12
Predicting the seismic ground-motion parameters: 3D physics-based numerical simulations combined with artificial neural networks	12
Book Review: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering KramerSteven LStewartJonathan P. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2025, 1060 pp., 140.00 (USD). ISBN: 978-1-0328	12
Rethinking resilience policy and practice	11
Semiempirical model for the estimation of site amplification in Northern South America	11
Seismic capacity models for earth dams and their use in developing fragility curves	11
The 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model: Ground-motion characterization for the conterminous United States	11
Empirical ground-motion models for horizontal Fourier amplitude spectra from fixed-effects and mixed-effects analyses of the NGA-West2 database	11
2021 US National Seismic Hazard Model for the State of Hawaii	11
Parametric study on the collapse probability of modern reinforced concrete frames with infills	11
Seismic loss assessment of existing hotel building in Ecuador	11
Peculiar characteristics of ground motions in Southern Italy: Insights from global and regional ground motion models	11
Ground failures and foundation performances in Adıyaman–Gölbaşı following the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş–Türkiye Earthquake Sequence	11
Erratum to ‘‘Conditional probability of surface rupture: a numerical approach for principal faulting’’	10
Evaluation of directionality in physics-based ground motion simulations of strike-slip earthquakes	10
Seismic performance assessment of structural systems in the aftermath of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes: Observations and fragility analyses	10
A numerical study on the seismic retrofit of Haitian reinforced concrete building frames	10
Simulated site amplification for Central and Eastern North America: Data set development and amplification models	10
Comprehensive numerical analyses of the seismic performance of natural gas pipelines crossing earthquake faults	10
Assessment of the prediction of ground motion parameters in 1D ground response analysis using data from seismic arrays and centrifuge experiments	10

A latent Gaussian process model for the spatial distribution of liquefaction manifestation	10
Effects of source, path, and site conditions on damping modification factor for the horizontal response spectrum using offshore ground motions in the Japan Trench area	10
Seismic fragility functions for a pervasive unique form of construction with very high potential for social losses in Trinidad and Tobago: Two-story houses	10
Seismic performance of UHV composite post electrical equipment interconnected using a rigid bus with a sliding fitting	10
Conditional probability of surface rupture: A numerical approach for principal faulting	10
Seismic loss comparison for buildings designed with ductile steel seismic force-resisting systems and with controlled rocking braced frames	9
Seismic safety of informally constructed reinforced concrete houses in Puerto Rico	9
A rupture directivity adjustment model and its application in seismic hazard	9
Earthquake-induced building damage recognition from unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing using scale-invariant feature transform characteristics and support vector machine classification	9
Soil–structure interaction effects estimated with recursive subspace estimation methods	9
A building imagery database for the calibration of machine learning algorithms	9
Deep-neural-network model for predicting ground motion parameters using earthquake horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios	9
Investment planning for earthquake-resilient electric power systems considering cascading outages	9
Discussion of “ASCE/SEI 41 assessment of reinforced concrete buildings: Benchmarking nonlinear dynamic procedures with empirical damage observations”	9
Comparing subduction ground-motion models to observations for Cascadia	9
An open-access simulated earthquake ground-motion database for an M7 Hayward Fault earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Region	9
Three-dimensional 0–10 Hz physics-based simulations of the 2020 Magna, Utah, earthquake sequence	9
Regional seismic velocity model for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains based on measured shear wave velocity, sediment thickness, and surface geology	9
A simplified replacement cost model for residential buildings located in developing countries: The case study of Colombia	9
“We ran outside and waited for it to come”: Resident experiences in response to a false earthquake early warning	9
Structural performance of buildings during the 30 November 2018 M7.1 Anchorage, Alaska earthquake	9
A framework for the rapid assessment of seismic upgrade viability using performance-based earthquake engineering	9
Lessons in business recovery following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence, Türkiye informed by women entrepreneurs	9
Bayesian parameter estimation of duration-based variables used in post-earthquake building recovery modeling	8
Updating proxy-based site amplification map with in-situ data in Osaka, Japan: A Bayesian scheme based on uncertainty projected mapping	8
Use of scenario earthquakes for seismic hazard assessment in low-seismicity, stable continental regions: A case study from Indiana, USA	8
Dead people aren’t resilient	8
Directionality of FIV3 ground-motion intensities during the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye earthquake doublet	8
Predictive kappa (κ) models for Turkey: Regional effects and uncertainty analysis	8
WITHDRAWAL – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Statistical Analysis of Japan Wood Frame Building Earthquake Debris Extent and Its Use in Road Networks in Japan	8
A refined simulation method of building earthquake evacuation processes considering multi-exits and time-variant velocities	8
Deep neural network–powered ground-motion models for acceleration spectrum intensity, Housner’s spectrum intensity, and displacement spectrum intensity	8
Fragility modeling practices and their implications on risk and resilience analysis: From the structure to the network scale	8
High-resolution post-earthquake recovery simulation: Impact of safety cordons	8
Damage to monumental masonry buildings in Hatay and Osmaniye following the 2023 Turkey earthquake sequence: The role of wall geometry, construction quality, and material properties	8
Front Matter	8
Generation of numerical-based capacity fragility curves for different aspect ratios of full-connection gypsum partition walls	8
Variability and uncertainty of variance components in fixed-effects and mixed-effects ground-motion models	8
Effect of bidirectional excitation on seismic performance of regular RC frame buildings designed for modern codes	7
A database and empirical model for earthquake post-loss amplification	7
Factor Prioritization in FEMA P-58 Loss Estimation	7
CORRIGENDUM TO “Ranking and developing ground-motion models for Southeastern Africa”	7
Multi-criteria decision-making approach for optimal seismic/energy retrofitting of existing buildings	7
Integration of rupture directivity models for the US National Seismic Hazard Model	7
The Estimated Carbon Cost of Concrete Building Demolitions following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence	7
Seismic fragility curves of a historical brick masonry minaret	7
A Global Application Programming Interface–Enabled Earthquake Ground Motion Relational Database for Engineering Applications	7