#### 8.2.58.5 tblish.dataset.attenu ¶

Static Method: `out =` attenu `()` ¶

  Joyner-Boore Earthquake Attenuation Data

  #### Description ¶

  Event data for 23 earthquakes in California, showing peak accelerations.

  #### Format ¶

  `event`

    Event number

  `mag`

    Moment magnitude

  `station`

    Station identifier

  `dist`

    Station-hypocenter distance (km)

  `accel`

    Peak acceleration (g)

  #### Source ¶

  Joyner, W.B., D.M. Boore and R.D. Porcella (1981). Peak horizontal acceleration and velocity from strong-motion records including records from the 1979 Imperial Valley, California earthquake. USGS Open File report 81-365. Menlo Park, CA.

  #### References ¶

  Boore, D. M. and Joyner, W. B. (1982). The empirical prediction of ground motion. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 72, S269–S268.

  #### Examples ¶

      # TODO: Port the example code from R
      # It does coplot() and pairs(), which are higher-level plotting tools
      # than core Octave provides. This could turn into a long example if we
      # just use base Octave here.