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Figure 22-2 S
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Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE
R
) Ground Motion Parameter for the
Conterminous United States for 1.0 s Spectral Response Acceleration (5% of Critical Damping), Site Class B.
REFERENCES
Building Seismic SaIety Council, 2009, NEHRP Recommended
Seismic Provisions Ior New Buildings and Other Structures: FEMA
P-750/2009 Edition, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Washington, DC.
Huang, Yin-Nan, Whittaker, A.S., and Luco, Nicolas, 2008,
Maximum spectral demands in the near-Iault region, Earthquake
Spectra, Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 319-341.
Luco, Nicolas, Ellingwood, B.R., Hamburger, R.O., Hooper, J.D.,
Kimball, J.K., and Kircher, C.A., 2007, Risk-Targeted versus
Current Seismic Design Maps Ior the Conterminous United States,
Structural Engineers Association oI CaliIornia 2007 Convention
Proceedings, pp. 163-175.
Petersen, M.D., Frankel, A.D., Harmsen, S.C., Mueller, C.S.,
Haller, K.M., Wheeler, R.L., Wesson, R.L., Zeng, Yuehua,
Boyd, O.S., Perkins, D.M., Luco, Nicolas, Field, E.H., Wills, C.J.,
and Rukstales, K.S., 2008, Documentation Ior the 2008 Update oI
the United States National Seismic Hazard Maps: U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 2008-1128, 61 p.
DISCUSSION
Maps prepared by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in
collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA)-Iunded Building Seismic SaIety Council (BSSC) and
the American Society oI Civil Engineers (ASCE). The basis is
explained in commentaries prepared by BSSC and ASCE and in
the reIerences.
Ground motion values contoured on these maps incorporate:
a target risk oI structural collapse equal to 1 in 50 years
based upon a generic structural Iragility
a Iactor oI 1.3 to adjust Irom a geometric mean to the
maximum response regardless oI direction
deterministic upper limits imposed near large, active Iaults,
which are taken as 1.8 times the estimated median response
to the characteristic earthquake Ior the Iault (1.8 is used to
represent the 84th percentile response), but not less than
60 g.
As such, the values are diIIerent Irom those on the uniIorm-
hazard 2008 USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps posted at:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazmaps.
Larger, more detailed versions oI these maps are not provided
because it is recommended that the corresponding USGS web
tool (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/designmaps or
http://content.seinstitute.org) be used to determine the mapped
value Ior a speciIied location.
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Figure 22-2 (Continued) S
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Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE
R
) Ground Motion Parameter for the
Conterminous United States for 1.0 s Spectral Response Acceleration (5% of Critical Damping), Site Class B.
100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Miles
100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Kilometers
Explanation
Contour intervals, %g
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response acceleration of 60% g
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Point value of spectral response
acceleration expressed as a percent
of gravity
Contours of spectral response
acceleration expressed as a percent
of gravity. Hachures point in
direction of decreasing values