2. Technical Guide

This ShakeMap Technical Guide is meant as the definitive source of information pertaining to the generation of ShakeMaps. Many of the initial descriptions in Wald et al. (1999a) are outdated and are superseded by this current report.

• 2.1. Philosophy of Estimating and Interpolating Ground Motions
• 2.2. Recorded Ground-motion Parameters
• 2.3. Data Processing
• 2.4. Ground Motion Model Selection
• 2.5. Verification