Permanently Instrumented Field Sites for
Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction

Garner Valley SFSI Field Site

The field site at Garner Valley, near Mt. San Jacinto

The Garner Valley Array is a thoroughly characterized strong motion monitoring site with surface accelerometers, borehole pore pressure transducers and accelerometers, and an extensively instrumented Soil Foundation Structure Interaction (SFSI) test facility. The Garner Valley array records earthquakes on a daily basis, and is also used in active testing experiments. more

Wildlife Refuge Liquefaction Field Site

The field site at the Imperial Wildlife Refuge

Located in the Imperial Valley of Southern California within the Imperial Wildlife Management Area,the Wildlife Liquefaction Array is a fully instrumented site in an area that has historically produced significant ground motion and liquefaction effects. more

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The first of 60 stations have been deployed in Garner Valley as part of the High Fidelity Site Characterization Project. The first dozen station have been deployed and captured a 4.2 magnitude quake. more

Map of Garner Valley showing an array aligned aproximately perpendicular to a local fault.

This project is supported by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers CMS-0217421 and CMS-0402490.

Remote site communications are made possible by the HPWREN program at UC San Diego, NSF grant numbers 0087344 and 0426879