Response Spectra in Managua, Nicaragua

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Academic and scientific institutions

• Departament of Engineering Geology, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Sweden.
• Geoscientific Research Centre, UNAN Managua, Nicaragua.
• Faculty of Construction Technology, National Engineering University, Managua, Nicaragua.
• Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies.
• International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
• TC 10 - Geophysical Testing in Geotechnical Engineering.
• TC 16 - Ground Property Characterization by In-Situ Tests.
• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Server Home Page.

Geotechnical Engineering Portals

• Geoforum, multilingual service for the geotechnical community.
• GeoEngineer.org, an independent part of The Civil Engineer website. Resources and educational information in Geotechnical Engineering and related fields, featuring the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal.

Publications

• Parrales R.M. (2006). Dynamic properties of the soils in the area of Managua, Nicaragua. Master's thesis. Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University. Lund.
  ISBN 978-91-973406-7-0
• Parrales R.M. (2004). Different definitions of energy dissipation in geological materials. Notes. Lund. 5p. (162 Kio)
• Darce M., Moore F.A., Traña J.M., Parrales R.M., Ugarte A. (2004). Estudio de la vulnerabilidad y riesgo sísmico de la ciudad de León. (“Vulnerability and seismic hazard study in León, Nicaragua”) ECHO-Movimondo. Managua. 286p.
• Parrales R., Dahlin T. and Rubí C. (2003) Site investigation with combined methods in a faulted area in Managua, Nicaragua - a pre-study. in Procs. 9th Meeting Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, 31 August-4 September 2003. P-076, 4p. (173 Kio) + poster (1,05 Mio)
• Parrales R. (2003) Application of GIS to geotechnical analysis in Managua, Nicaragua. Course project. Giscentrum, Lund University. 11p. (410 Kio)
  
  (There is a number of other projects presented by the students of that course.)
• Moore F.A., Parrales R.M., Guzmán C.M. et al. (2001). Estudio de amenaza sísmica: Zonificación sísmica preliminar para Nicaragua y microzonificación sísmica para Posoltega-Quezalguaque. (“Seismic hazard study: Preliminary seismic zonation of Nicaragua and seismic microzonation for Posoltega-Quezalguaque”) Movimondo-Molisv. Managua.
  
  (Download a small presentation (1,58 Mio, in Spanish) about this work, presented at the II Congress of Civil Engineering, complementary to that of Prof. F.A. Moore.)
• Parrales R.M. y Picado M.J. (2001) Análisis de espectros de respuesta en el área de la ciudad de Managua. (“Response spectra analysis in the Managua city area”). BEng. dissertation, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Managua. 198p. (2,97 Mio)

Other resources

• Photographs of the 23.12.1973 Managua earthquake.
• A project to Update the Managua faulting map, along with an Interactive Map.
• A growing list of journal papers relating Earth Sciences applied in Nicaragua, maintained by A. Mendoza.
• Carlos Guzmán's, homepage; geophysicist and seismologist.
• Spectrogram Evaluation of Seismic Risk in Managua, Nicaragua; MSc. thesis by Jonas Hedberg. (complete thesis in pdf-format). Lund University, 2005.
• Study of Aquifer Vulnerability Due to Local Contamination in Sucio River Basin, Nicaragua; a research project that is being carried out by Alfredo Mendoza.

On the news...

• Journal news about the project on Prevention of Natural Disasters in Western Nicaragua, one of whose results is the report by Moore et al. (2001).
• A report about current research projects of CIGEO for the Managua city area, including my own.

Miscellaneous

• III Conference on Multidisciplinary Environmental Research
• Monografías.com. Researches, Manuals, Tutorials, Thesis, Biographies.
• Imagen Astronómica del Día. Spanish version of the Astronomy Picture of the Day, in whose translation the author of this webpage eventually collaborates.
• Hometown: Estelí.
• Maledicta
• Antiterrorists
• Commit random acts of literacy! Read & Release at BookCrossing
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Last updated: Tue, 07 Nov 2006