[Shake-dev] SSA special session: ShakeMap-Related Research, Development, Operations, and Applications

[Bruce Worden]

Hi All,

We wanted to call your attention to a special ShakeMap session for the 2013 SSA annual meeting (April 17-19, 2013): ShakeMap-Related Research, Development, Operations, and Applications. We welcome and encourage your participation. 

The abstract submission deadline is January 10, 2013. Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.

See you in Salt Lake City!

Bruce
ShakeMap-Related Research, Development, Operations, and Applications
The recent upgrade of ShakeMap (to Version 3.5) represents a major improvement in the way ground motions are geospatially interpolated. The weighted-average interpolation approach now accommodates intensity as well as ground-motion data, along with shaking estimates from prediction equations or modeling. While these new capabilities add important new functionality, they require more sophisticated validation of ground motion and intensity relations, and a fuller understanding of uncertainties and spatial correlation. This session explores current research in the modeling and validation of ground motion and intensity relations as well as new or emerging efforts to improve ground motion prediction, site correction and geospatial analyses (along with uncertainties) pertinent to ShakeMap. We also encourage presentations on research, operations, and applications related to ShakeMap. Such applications include, but are not limited to, earthquake scenarios, risk assessment, loss estimation, earthquake response tools, and engineering analyses that utilize ShakeMap ground motion estimates and associated uncertainty information.

Session Chairs

Kristine Pankow <pankow [at] seis [dot] utah [dot] edu>

Bruce Worden <cbworden [at] gmail [dot] com>

Kuo-Wan Lin <klin [at] usgs [dot] gov>


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