Seismic Behaviour of La Merced Temple in Morelia, Mexico

Abstract

This paper studies the seismic behaviour of La Merced temple, dating from the beginning of s. XVII and is located in the historic center of the city of Morelia considering a set of 9 real September 19, 2017, earthquake acceleration records obtained in seismic stations located near the epicenter, which were used without any scaling factor and then applying a scaling factor to reach the site maximum expected peak ground accelerations for probabilistic return periods of 475 years and 975 years.

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