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Child Item 2 of 3 : Maximum Considered Earthquake Geometric Mean Peak Ground Acceleration Maps

for the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard

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Pember, N.W., 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 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1UTDSDT.

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Please see the parent item for a high-level description. 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 Maximum Considered Earthquake Geometric Mean (MCEG) peak ground accelerations. These peak ground accelerations are each for the geometric mean of two horizontal components and a site average shear wave velocity within 30 m of the surface (VS30) of 760 m/s. For more information, see Chapters 11, 21, and 22 of the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard. Maps for the U.S. territories of Guam and American Samoa are not included because geometric mean peak ground motion parameters [...]

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Alaska_2007_Geomean_PGA_Vs30_760_NEHRP_2009.zip
“MCEG ground motion parameter maps and shapefiles for Alaska”
2.82 MB application/zip
ConUS_2008_Geomean_PGA_Vs30_760_NEHRP_2009.zip
“MCEG ground motion parameter maps and shapefiles for the conterminous US”
5.33 MB application/zip
Hawaii_1998_Geomean_PGA_Vs30_760_NEHRP_2009.zip
“MCEG ground motion parameter maps and shapefiles for Hawaii”
229.35 KB application/zip
PRVI_2003_Geomean_PGA_Vs30_760_NEHRP_2009.zip
“MCEG ground motion parameter maps and shapefiles for Puerto Rico”
197.74 KB application/zip

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