First Page of Manuscript for IWISNE

Farzad Naeim,a) Nancy Sutherland,b) and Roger Borcherdtc)

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Introduction

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Example of Table and Table Title

Table 1. List of real earthquake records (Shao 1998)

Record No.	Date	Earthquake and Site	Component	PGA (g)
1 2	1940 May 18	Imperial Valley El Centro	S00E S90W	0.89 0.55
3 4	1952 Jul 21	Kern County, Pasadena, Caltech Athenaeum	S00E S90W	0.12 0.14
5 6	1952 Jul 21	Kern County, Taft, Lincoln School Tunnel	N21E S69E	0.40 0.46
7 8	1952 Jul 21	Kern County, Santa Barbara, Courthouse	N42E S48E	0.23 0.33

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Examples of Figures and Figure Caption

Figure 4. (a) Short-period Fa and (b) mid-period Fv amplification factors

(Figures reprinted from Borcherdt 1994)

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Examples of Equations and Text

Amplification factors are predicted … by the following equations:

,	(2)

and

(3)

where

,	(4a)

,	(4b)

vo is mean shear-wave velocity for the site class … (Borcherdt 1994).

Examples of References

Applied Technology Council (ATC), 1996 Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Concrete Buildings, volumes 1 and 2, Report No. ATC-40, Redwood City, CA.

Borcherdt, R. D., 1994. Estimates of site-dependent response spectra for design (methodology and justification), Earthquake Spectra 10, 617–653.

Chang, T.-S., Hwang, H., Ng, K. W., and Lee, C. S., 1990. Subsurface conditions in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, in Proceedings, Second International Conference of Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, S. Prakash (editor), vol.2, paper 9.6, St. Louis, pp. 13051311

Sherzer, M., 2001. The Elements of Grammar, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 168 pp.

Strunk, W., Jr., and White, E. B., 2000. The Elements of Style, 4th edition, Longman Publishing Co., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 105 pp.

University of Chicago Press Staff, 2003. The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, Chicago, IL.

a) John A. Martin & Associates, 1212 S. Flower St., 4th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90015

b) Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 499 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612-1934

c) U.S. Geological Survey, MS 977, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025