Research Article

Seismic Performance Evaluation of Buried Sewage Collection Pipelines

Table 6

Weighted coefficient for magnitude of the earthquake.

Magnitude of the earthquakeCoefficient

MMI < 81.0
PGA < 0.25 G

8 < MMI < 92.1
0.25 G < PGA < 0.45 G

9 < MMI < 102.4
0.45 G < PGA < 0.6 G

10 < MMI < 113.0
0.6 G < PGA < 0.9 G

11 < MMI3.5
PGA > 0.9 G