The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) invite the engineering and science communities to use the Simulated Ground Motion Database (SGMD). The database includes a large set of simulated ground motions generated from physics-based, deterministic, broad-band earthquake simulations. These simulated ground motions in the database have undergone careful validation, including comparisons against recorded ground motions from actual earthquakes. The PEER-LBNL SGMD is one of the few simulated ground motion databases globally and is anticipated to enable engineers and scientists to utilize validated simulated ground motions in seismically active regions in the U.S. and around the world.
The development and maintenance of SGMD is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER) towards ensuring resilience of U.S. energy infrastructure. This support, and the encouragement of CESER Program Manager Joseph Dygert, is gratefully acknowledged.
Prospective users: please fill out this form for requesting access to the database and please visit here for detailed background information about the database, list of available scenario earthquakes and realizations, simulation and ground motion metadata, and links to related publications.
Users with access granted will receive an email about instructions to sign up and activate their accounts.