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5. Declustered seismicity catalogs used in the 2018 update of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model

Dates

Publication Date
Validity Begins
2018

Citation

Rukstales, K.S., and Petersen, M.D., 2019, Data Release for 2018 Update of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WT5OVB.

Summary

An updated, declustered seismicity catalog is assembled from several preexisting catalogs. The methodology developed by Mueller (2019) was used to convert original magnitudes to uniform moment magnitudes, delete duplicate events, delete non-tectonic events, and finally decluster the catalog.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kenneth S Rukstales
Originator :
Kenneth S Rukstales, Mark D Petersen
Data Owner :
Earthquake Hazards Program
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Earthquake Hazards Program
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards

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Declustered_Seismicity.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		15.36 KB application/fgdc+xml
Declustered_Seismicity.jpg
“Map in JPEG format” 		thumbnail 791.4 KB image/jpeg
Declustered_Seismicity.pdf
“Map in PDF format” 		748.51 KB application/pdf
emm.c3
“Eastern U.S. declustered seismicity catalog” 		630.17 KB text/plain
wmm.c3
“Western U.S. declustered seismicity catalog” 		2.91 MB text/plain

Purpose

These datasets can be used to assess the size and location of past earthquakes and the location and rate of future earthquakes.
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