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An Updated Vs30 Map for California with Geologic and Topographic Constraints (ver. 1.1, July 2022)

This data release provides a map of the time-averaged shear-wave velocity in the upper 30 m (Vs30) for California using the method described by Thompson and others (2014). There are two adjustments to the algorithm described by Thompson and others (2014), which is built on the geology-based Vs30 map by Wills and Clahan (2006). In this data release, we use the Wills and others (2015) updated geology-based Vs30 map. The second change is that we have adjusted the kriging procedure so that measured Vs30 values do not affect the predictions across distinctly different geologic units.

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Author(s) Eric M Thompson orcid
Publication Date 2018-01-24
Beginning Date of Data 2017-12-18
Ending Date of Data 2017-12-18
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/F7JQ108S
Citation Thompson, E.M., 2018, An Updated Vs30 Map for California with Geologic and Topographic Constraints (ver. 1.1, July 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7JQ108S.
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Metadata Date 2022-07-12
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