How is the USGS involved?
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Caltech scientists developed ShakeMap initially to display ground motions in southern California. The USGS also funded ShakeMap installation and maintenance at UNR through the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS, www.anss.org). ANSS also funded strong-motion instrumentation that we use to measure strong motions in urban Nevada. The USGS also hosts the national ShakeMap web site which displays ShakeMaps from across the country. Nevada’s ShakeMaps joined the national pages in January 2006. They can be viewed at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/shakemap/. A paper by Glenn Biasi and Kent Lindquist describing Nevada’s ShakeMap implementation and its usefulness in seismic hazard planning was prepared for the Basin and Range Province Earthquake Hazard Summit II in May 2004. It explains how the USGS National Mapping Project pages can be used as an input for ShakeMap Scenarios. Download here. The complete proceedings volume, edited by William R. Lund
