Catalog of Strong-Motion Accelerograph Records

摘要

The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and its collocated World Data Center-A for Solid Earth Geophysics (WDC-A) are responsible for acquiring, archiving, and disseminating strong-motion accelerograph data to meet requirements of the scientific and technical community. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided most of the digital data now in the strong-motion archive from its National Strong-Motion Instrumentation Network. The present catalog contains information on all digital accelerograph records in the archives of NGDC and WDC-A. The report includes the date, time, epicenter, magnitude, depth, and intensity of each triggering earthquake, while table 2 gives the recording station, geographic location, date of record, type of accelerograph, component, acceleration, velocity, and displacement. The catalog provides information on accelerograph records from as early as March 11, 1933 (the Long Beach, Calif., earthquake) through April 24, 1984 (the destructive Morgan Hill, Calif., earthquake). Information on formats of available data is included in the section 'Data Formats and Services.'