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earthquakes, seismology, hazards

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USA, conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, United States

Uniform-hazard ground motion maps for the conterminous U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii

Uniform-hazard ground motion maps and their underlying GIS data were prepared for PGA and horizontal spectral accelerations at 0.2, 1.0, and 5.0 second period, with a probability of exceedance of 2%, 5% and 10% in 50 years, for NEHRP soil site classes B/C and D (VS30 equal to 760 and 260 m/s, respectively).

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Author(s) Mark D Petersen orcid, Allison M Shumway orcid, Peter M Powers orcid, Ned Field orcid, Morgan P Moschetti orcid, Kishor Jaiswal orcid, Kevin R Milner orcid, Sanaz Rezaeian orcid, Arthur D Frankel orcid, Andrea L Llenos orcid, Andrew J Michael orcid, Jason M Altekruse orcid, Sean K Ahdi orcid, Kyle Withers orcid, Charles S Mueller orcid, Yuehua Zeng orcid, Robert E Chase, Leah M Salditch orcid, Nicolas Luco orcid, Kenneth S Rukstales orcid, Julie A Herrick orcid, Demi L Girot, Brad T Aagaard orcid, Adrian M Bender orcid, Michael L Blanpied orcid, Richard Briggs orcid, Oliver S Boyd orcid, Brandon S Clayton orcid, Christopher B Duross orcid, Eileen Evans, Peter J Haeussler orcid, Alexandra E Hatem orcid, Kirstie L Haynie orcid, Elizabeth Hearn orcid, Kaj Johnson, Zachary A Kortum, Neal (Simon) Kwong orcid, Andrew J Makdisi orcid, Henry (Ben) B., Daniel E McNamara orcid, Devin F. McPhillips orcid, Paul G Okubo, Morgan T Page orcid, Fred Pollitz orcid, Justin L Rubinstein orcid, Bruce Shaw orcid, Zheng-Kang Shen, Brian R Shiro orcid, James A Smith orcid, William J Stephenson orcid, Eric M Thompson orcid, Jessica A Jobe orcid, Erin (Wirth) W orcid, Robert C Witter orcid
Publication Date 2023-12-28
Beginning Date of Data 2023-12-28
Ending Date of Data 2023-12-28
Data Contact
Ken Rukstales
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GNPCOD
Citation Petersen, M.D., Shumway, A.M., Powers, P.M., Field, N., Moschetti, M.P., Jaiswal, K., Milner, K.R., Rezaeian, S., Frankel, A.D., Llenos, A.L., Michael, A.J., Altekruse, J.M., Ahdi, S.K., Withers, K., Mueller, C.S., Zeng, Y., Chase, R.E., Salditch, L.M., Luco, N., Rukstales, K.S., Herrick, J.A., Girot, D.L., Aagaard, B.T., Bender, A.M., Blanpied, M.L., Briggs, R., Boyd, O.S., Clayton, B.S., Duross, C.B., Evans, E., Haeussler, P.J., Hatem, A.E., Haynie, K.L., Hearn, E., Johnson, K., Kortum, Z.A., Kwong, N.(., Makdisi, A.J., B., H.(., McNamara, D.E., McPhillips, D.F., Okubo, P.G., Page, M.T., Pollitz, F., Rubinstein, J.L., Shaw, B., Shen, Z., Shiro, B.R., Smith, J.A., Stephenson, W.J., Thompson, E.M., Jobe, J.A., W, E.(., and Witter, R.C., 2023, Uniform-hazard ground motion maps for the conterminous U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GNPCOD.
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Metadata Date 2023-12-21
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