PEER to Develop Next Generation Attenuation Models for Central & Eastern US

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is coordinating a new major multi-disciplinary multi-year research program to develop the Next Generation Attenuation Models for the Central & Eastern US (NGA-East) with support from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), United States Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

The expected impact of the NGA-East project is enormous as almost all seismic design of engineering facilities ranging from power plants to buildings to bridges to lifelines will be affected by these ground motion models.

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