Description

The primary long-term goal of the Ground Motion Focus Group is to understand and characterize seismic ground motion in urbanized Southern California well enough to predict the ground motions from specified sources at frequencies up to at least 1 Hz, and to formulate useful, consistent, stochastic models of ground motions up to at least 10 Hz. Accomplishing this goal requires knowledge of seismic source processes, geologic structure, anelastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media, and non-linear soil response. Thus, the Ground Motion Group relies heavily on interaction and collaboration with other SCEC groups, in particular, the Earthquake Source Physics Group (source rupture processes), the Structural Representation Group (CVM, CFM, USR), the Seismic Hazard Group (waveform-based hazard assessment), and the Implementation Interface (conduit to the engineering community).

Leader: Paul Davis
Co-leader: Robert Graves

2006 Overview

2006 SCEC Request for Proposals

2005 Overview

2005 Workshops and Activities

SCEC-Funded projects related to Ground Motions in 2005

2005 SCEC Request for Proposals

2004 Overview

Annual Report for Ground Motions

2004 Workshops and Activities

SCEC-Funded projects related to Ground Motions in 2004

2004 SCEC Request for Proposals

2003 Overview

2003 SCEC Request for Proposals