Important

This ShakeMap 3.5 Manual is deprecated. Please see the ShakeMap 4 Manual.

5. Regional Operations

Note

This section will be updated with Regional ShakeMap specifications after input from the ANSS Regional Seismic Networks operators.

As described in the section on real-time ShakeMap archives, ShakeMaps are generated via independent systems running at ANSS Regional Seismic Systems (RSNs) in Northern California, Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Utah, Nevada, and Alaska. For the rest of the U.S., the ShakeMap group at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) produces maps for the regional networks operating in Hawaii, New England, and the Central and Eastern U.S. on a system referred to as Global ShakeMap (GSM). The input, metadata, and output files produced by all these instances are aggregated by the USGS via the Earthquake Hazards Program web system. GSM also provides backup capabilities for the RSNs, but with degraded capabilities; not all data are flowing from the RSNs to GSM automatically.

Separate independent systems running in Puerto Rico and New England generate ShakeMaps, but these instances do not deliver them through the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program webpages (at the time of this writing). GSM covers these regions, but does not yet access the full set of data available to these regional systems.

In this section, we describe customizations employed by ShakeMap systems running throughout the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) regions nationwide as well as the Global ShakeMap (GSM) system running at the NEIC in Golden, Colorado.

Note

Specifications of input parameters, data, and other configurations used for any ShakeMap can be found in the event-specific summary files (info.xml).

Details for about regional configurations for ShakeMap operators can be found in the Software & Implementation Guide. For contact information for ANSS regional operators see the Acknowledgments.

  • Northern California

  • Southern California

  • Pacific Northwest

  • Intermountain West

  • Mid-America

  • Northeast

  • Alaska

  • Puerto Rico

  • Hawaii

    • Coverage Area. State of Hawaii (Bounds:)

    • Operations. ShakeMap operated at NEIC in conjunction with HVO RSN operators

    • Triggering and Data Flow.

    • Site Condition Map. Vs30 from topographic slope-based (Allen and Wald, 2009b)

    • Ground Motion Prediction and Conversion Equations (GMPE/IPE/GMICE).

    • Other Local Characteristics.