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Data Files from "CWB Free-Field Strong-Motion Data from the 21 September Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake"

Southern California Earthquake Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
whklee@ix.netcom.com
(W.H.K.L.)
Seismological Observation Center
Central Weather Bureau
64 Kung-Yuan Road, Taipei, Taiwan
(T.C.S., K.W.K., K.C.C., C.F.W.)

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The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) of Taiwan completed a deployment of 1200 modern digital strong-motion instruments in 1996 at free-field sites and in buildings and bridges. Consequently, a very extensive set of strong-motion records were obtained for the M_W = 7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake in 1999, including over 60 near-field records within 20 km of the fault ruptures.

For documentation purposes, we included all relevant data files on the attached CD-ROM from our article, "CWB Free-Field Strong-Motion Data from the 21 September Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake" in this issue. We presented the data in four different ways to make the data more user friendly: (1) the original recorded data by accelerograph type; (2) the processed data in ASCII text format; (3) the processed data in SUDS format; and (4) the processed data . . . [Full Text of this Article]