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Earthquake Hazards Program

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

standards, earthquakes, hazards, engineering sciences, seismology

Other Subject Keywords

NEHRP 2009, Risk, 2010 ASCE/SEI 7, Seismic

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New Hampshire, Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Montana, Arkansas, Iowa, Texas, New York, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Hawaii, Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, Wyoming, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Illinois, Virginia, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Oklahoma, USA, Utah, Missouri, Nevada, Florida, Oregon, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, Washington, Colorado, United States, California, North Carolina, Maine, Kansas, South Carolina, Indiana, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Idaho

Maps of earthquake ground motions for the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard

For designing buildings and other structures to safely resist earthquakes, the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard contain maps of Uniform Hazard response accelerations, risk coefficients, 84th-percentile spectral accelerations, and Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCER) spectral response accelerations, all at spectral periods of 0.2-second and 1.0-second. The spectral accelerations are for the direction of maximum horizontal response and a site shear wave velocity (VS30) of 760 m/s, in units of the percent g, the acceleration of gravity. For more information, see Chapters 11, 21, and 22 of the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard.

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Author(s)	Nicole N. Pember, Katrina S Peralta, Stephen E Waldvogel, Nicolas Luco , Ken S. Rukstales , Stephen C. Harmsen
Publication Date	2024-06-25
Beginning Date of Data	2009
Ending Date of Data	Unknown
Data Contact	Nicolas Luco
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/P1UTDSDT
Citation	Pember, N.N., Peralta, K.S., Waldvogel, S.E., Luco, N., Rukstales, K.S., and Harmsen, S.C., 2024, Maps of earthquake ground motions for the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1UTDSDT.
Metadata Contact	Nicole W. Pember
Metadata Date	2024-06-25
Related Publication	There was no related primary publication associated with this data release.
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