lenticular masses of cemented sand.* The data are insufficient to permit detailed seismic analy-

gis, but average depth to basalt is about 3400 ft. Similar data from Easy and!

| shots of

Operation Greenhouse indicated a constant seismic velocity of about 6900 ft/sec (Ref. 3) but did

not include information from sufficiently remote stations to include refraction through basement
rock.
Table 1.2--GROUND-ACCELERATION AND AIR-OVERPRESSURE DATA
Accelerometers
Damped

Max.
Ground
range,
ft

Station
number
615.02
650.01

8,250
8,302

611.01

15,900

650.02

18,334

650.03

air overpressure,
psi
(40)

611.02

21,412

603

30,226

613.01

36,708

4

611.04
650.05

47,574
47,617

2.7

650.06

114,182
114,240

. Set
range,|
g

natural
freq.,
cps

Vv

18

165

R
T

18
9

162
128

.

Max.
pos.,*|
g

Max.
neg.,|
g

2.35

13.5

150

1.00
0.41

3.8
0.56

50
77

irAir-shock
induced

Freq.,f
cps

Max.
pos.,*|
g

Max.
neg.,!
Z

Freq.,f
eps

18.6

21,264

612.01

Component

Ground-t
und-transmitted

12.4

Vv

4

106

0.26

0.20

2.7

1.34

1.50

R

4

102

0.23

0.27

4.0

0.46

0.45

36

T

2

73

0.14

0.11

4.2

0.19

0.37

42

Vv

3

106

0.23

0.18

3.0

0.74

2.1

22(6.3)

R
T

3
2

Lit
73

0.23
0.12

0.17
0.07

3.3
46

0.71
0.16

0.46
0.33

67(9.4)
67(13)

Vv
R
T

2
2
2

69
65
79

0.16
10.16
0.26

0.15
0.14
0.20

3.4(1.6)|
3.4(1.8)|
4.5(1.7)|

3.67
3.00
0.85

2.90
2.96
0.49

154
lll
128

1.4

0.034

0.020

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No record
Vv

0.2

40

0.010

0.080;

0.55

*Positive acceleration has the following directions: up, for all vertical components; in (toward Ground
Zero), for all radial components; counterclockwise (as seen from above Ground Zero), for all tangential
components.

.

?tFrequencies enclosed in parentheses are those of apparently secondary importance.

Maximum accelerations and acceleration frequencies are compared in Table 1.2. Set ranges
in this table refer to the plus-and-minus ranges of linear response to which the end-instrument-recording systems were set. These values were high by factors ranging from 1.7 to 16
except for the accelerometers on the recorder shelter on Bokon,Station 603, which indicated
accelerations nearly twice set ranges. Ground-transmitted signals were below set range by
factors of 6 to 20, and air-shock induced data indicate that set ranges should have been lower
by factors of from 2 to 10. Consequently the factor used to increase the energy fraction directly
coupled to the earth because of the low burst height of Mike shot in estimating set range should
probably have been about 4 instead of 50. Data from Stations 650.01 and 603 are anomalous because of incompleteness of the record from Station 650.01 and because of measurementof
structural response rather than ground motion at Station 603. Peak accelerations quoted for
Station 650.06 in Table 1.2 are estimated for first ground-transmitted arrivals and are lower
by a factor of 2 than those for the first reflected signals included in Fig. A.11.
Ground-transmitted accelerations were analyzed by a logarithmic plot of peak-scaled ac-

celerations as a function of scaled ground range (Fig. 1.6). Scaling was according to the expressions

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