Electronic Supplement to
A New Pulse Indicator for the Classification of Ground Motions

by Vassiliki Kardoutsou, Ioannis Taflampas, and Ioannis N. Psycharis

Table S2. Proposed PI Index for the 91 Records Characterized as Pulse-Like by Baker (2007) Calculated for (a) the M&P Wavelet and (b) the Daubechies Wavelet

No. Record Sequence Number Earthquake Name Year Station Name Proposed PI Using the M&P Wavelet Proposed PI Using the Daubechies Wavelet
1 77 San Fernando 1971 Pacoima Dam (upper left abut) 0.73 0.69
2 150 Coyote Lake 1979 Gilroy Array #6 0.88 0.81
3 158 Imperial Valley-06 1979 Aeropuerto Mexicali 0.69 0.73
4 159 Imperial Valley-06 1979 Agrarias 0.82 0.79
5 161 Imperial Valley-06 1979 Brawley Airport 0.71 0.76
6 170 Imperial Valley-06 1979 EC County Center FF 0.81 0.81
7 171 Imperial Valley-06 1979 EC Meloland Overpass FF 0.90 0.89
8 173 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #10 0.66 0.73
9 174 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #11 0.67 0.65
10 178 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #3 0.82 0.83
11 179 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #4 0.93 0.91
12 180 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #5 0.91 0.88
13 181 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #6 0.95 0.94
14 182 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #7 0.90 0.86
15 183 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Array #8 0.84 0.83
16 184 Imperial Valley-06 1979 El Centro Differential Array 0.74 0.75
17 185 Imperial Valley-06 1979 Holtville Post Office 0.89 0.86
18 250 Mammoth Lakes-06 1980 Long Valley Dam (upper left abut) 0.70 0.72
19 292 Irpinia, Italy-01 1980 Sturno 0.68 0.74
20 316 Westmorland 1981 Parachute Test Site 0.68 0.64
21 407 Coalinga-05 1983 Oil City 0.67 0.67
22 415 Coalinga-05 1983 Transmitter Hill 0.80 0.74
23 418 Coalinga-07 1983 Coalinga-14th and Elm (Old CHP) 0.78 0.81
24 451 Morgan Hill 1984 Coyote Lake Dam (southwest abut) 0.81 0.77
25 459 Morgan Hill 1984 Gilroy Array #6 0.80 0.82
26 503 Taiwan SMART1(40) 1986 SMART1 C00 0.74 0.75
27 508 Taiwan SMART1(40) 1986 SMART1 M07 0.88 0.87
28 529 N. Palm Springs 1986 North Palm Springs 0.83 0.79
29 568 San Salvador 1986 Geotech Investig Center 0.72 0.72
30 615 Whittier Narrows-01 1987 Downey—County Maintenance Building 0.86 0.85
31 645 Whittier Narrows-01 1987 LB—Orange Avenue 0.81 0.76
32 723 Superstition Hills-02 1987 Parachute Test Site 0.82 0.76
33 738 Loma Prieta 1989 Alameda Naval Air Station Hanger 0.68 0.78
34 766 Loma Prieta 1989 Gilroy Array #2 0.78 0.73
35 783 Loma Prieta 1989 Oakland—Outer Harbor Wharf 0.76 0.76
36 802 Loma Prieta 1989 Saratoga—Aloha Avenue 0.58 0.64
37 821 Erzican, Turkey 1992 Erzincan 0.84 0.79
38 828 Cape Mendocino 1992 Petrolia 0.70 0.68
39 838 Landers 1992 Barstow 0.80 0.79
40 879 Landers 1992 Lucerne 0.89 0.80
41 900 Landers 1992 Yermo Fire Station 0.83 0.86
42 982 Northridge-01 1994 Jensen Filter Plant 0.85 0.86
43 983 Northridge-01 1994 Jensen Filter Plant Generator 0.85 0.86
44 1009 Northridge-01 1994 LA—Wadsworth VA Hospital North 0.60 0.60
45 1013 Northridge-01 1994 LA Dam 0.68 0.68
46 1045 Northridge-01 1994 Newhall—West Pico Canyon Road 0.90 0.87
47 1050 Northridge-01 1994 Pacoima Dam (downstream) 0.55 0.57
48 1051 Northridge-01 1994 Pacoima Dam (upper left) 0.75 0.70
49 1063 Northridge-01 1994 Rinaldi Receiving Station 0.80 0.80
50 1084 Northridge-01 1994 Sylmar—Converter Station 0.68 0.67
51 1085 Northridge-01 1994 Sylmar—Converter Station East 0.74 0.75
52 1086 Northridge-01 1994 Sylmar—Olive View Med FF 0.81 0.76
53 1119 Kobe, Japan 1995 Takarazuka 0.71 0.65
54 1120 Kobe, Japan 1995 Takatori 0.70 0.66
55 1161 Kocaeli, Turkey 1999 Gebze 0.83 0.77
56 1182 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 CHY006 0.57 0.65
57 1202 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 CHY035 0.68 0.65
58 1244 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 CHY101 0.70 0.77
59 1410 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TAP003 0.70 0.68
60 1476 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU029 0.90 0.88
61 1477 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU031 0.87 0.84
62 1479 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU034 0.79 0.81
63 1480 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU036 0.84 0.81
64 1481 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU038 0.79 0.80
65 1483 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU040 0.87 0.84
66 1484 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU042 0.78 0.78
67 1486 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU046 0.88 0.90
68 1489 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU049 0.82 0.78
69 1493 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU053 0.76 0.75
70 1494 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU054 0.79 0.74
71 1496 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU056 0.68 0.66
72 1499 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU060 0.77 0.75
73 1503 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU065 0.71 0.70
74 1505 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU068 0.88 0.82
75 1510 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU075 0.81 0.77
76 1511 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU076 0.60 0.59
77 1515 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU082 0.78 0.73
78 1519 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU087 0.78 0.81
79 1526 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU098 0.58 0.66
80 1528 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU101 0.82 0.81
81 1529 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU102 0.71 0.72
82 1530 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU103 0.84 0.84
83 1531 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU104 0.69 0.72
84 1548 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU128 0.81 0.78
85 1550 Chi-Chi, Taiwan 1999 TCU136 0.81 0.85
86 1752 Northwest China-03 1997 Jiashi 0.83 0.78
87 1853 Yountville 2000 Napa Fire Station #3 0.84 0.78
88 2457 Chi-Chi, Taiwan-03 1999 CHY024 0.80 0.77
89 2495 Chi-Chi, Taiwan-03 1999 CHY080 0.84 0.87
90 2627 Chi-Chi, Taiwan-03 1999 TCU076 0.91 0.88
91 3317 Chi-Chi, Taiwan-06 1999 CHY101 0.81 0.81

Columns 1–5 correspond to fields in the NGA-West2 flatfile, and columns 6 and 7 give the PI index calculated for the M&P wavelet and the Daubechies wavelet. Values in bold show records that are classified as ambiguous by the proposed methodology. All other records are classified as pulse-like.

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