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Ground motion model

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Petersen, M.D., Harmsen, S.C., Jaiswal, K.S., Rukstales, K.S., Luco, N., Haller, K.M., Mueller, C.S., and Shumway, A.M., 2018, Seismic Hazard, Risk, and Design for South America: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Wm1BK1.

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In develpoing the hazard model for South America, the USGS considered the ground motion models (GMM) used for the conterminous United States because most of the equations consider global earthquakes and because the U.S. and South America are seismically quite similar, with the potential for active subduction, deep intraslab, crustal, and craton earthquakes. Included here is a table that summarizes the GMMs selected for each of the earthquake types and the weight applied within the model.

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GroundMotionModels.xlsx
“Ground motion models and weights”
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These data summarize the ground motion models used to model seismic hazard for South America.

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