Next Generation Attenuation Relationships for Central & Eastern US (NGA-East)

With funding from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and in collaboration with the US Geological Survey (USGS) and national experts, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center has initiated a comprehensive multidisciplinary program to develop Next Generation Attenuation Relationships for the Central and Eastern US (NGA-East). This follows on the very successful multi-institution, multi-investigator, multi-sponsor collaborative Next Generation Attenuation Relationship (NGA-West) project (originally referred to as NGA) http://peer.berkeley.edu/products/nga_project.html NGA-West has been coordinated over the last four years by PEER, a national earthquake engineering research center with headquarters at the University of California, Berkeley.

In the NGA-East program, the objective is to develop a new set of comprehensive and broadly accepted attenuation relationships for the Central and Eastern US (CEUS). To support the NGA-East attenuation modelers, several sets of supporting projects will be defined, initiated, and coordinated. These include development of a ground motion database, and supporting computer simulation studies.