PREBOARD 2 – PROBLEM SETS, 2ND SEM AY 19-20Prepared by: ENGR. DIANNE C.

OLIVER
NAME: ________________________________________

Instruction: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Write only your name, section, and answers in each
number. When done, take a photo of your paper with your ID on it (any ID will do as long as it is yours). Send
the picture to me thru PM on messenger.

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

1. Measures the energy released at the source of the earthquake.

a. Intensity c. Attenuation
b. Seismicity d. Magnitude

2. Measures the strength of shaking.

a. Intensity c. Attenuation
b. Seismicity d. Magnitude

3. The currently used magnitude scale for the energy released in an earthquake is officially named as ____, written MW.
a. moment magnitude c. surface magnitude
b. local magnitude d. epicenter

4.An increase of one unit on the scale represents an increase in energy released by a factor of about:
a. 30 c. 36
b. 32 d. 38

5. If an object is being forced to vibrate at its natural frequency, this will occur and you will observe large amplitude
vibrations.
a. amplitude c. damping
b. shaking d. resonance 

6. The formula of fundamental (elastic) period of vibration of the building (in seconds) based on height and base width
(in meters) is:
a) Ct (hn)2/3 c) C x t (hn)3/4
3/4
b) Ct (hn) d) C x t (hn)2/3

7. The following defines a shear wall, except:

a. Resists wind and seismic loads
b. Can act as vertical cantilever
c. Concrete or masonry walls hinged at their base
d. Supports gravity loads

8. Which of the following soil profile type is described as hard rock?

a. SA c. SC
b. SB d. SD 

9. What is the seismic coefficient, Cv in seismic zone Z=0.2 under SA soil type?
a. 0.28 c. 0.20
b. 0.24 d. 0.16

10. What is the value of Ct for steel moment-resisting frames?

a. 0.0731 c. 0.0448
b. 0.0853 d. 0.0612