The Earthquake Strong Motion Data catalog is the inventory of Accelerograph Record descriptions for the NCEI Earthquake Strong Motion Database. The data, which date from 1933 to 1994, are representative of a broad range of structural and geologic recording environments. Various industrial, academic, and governmental sources located around the world contributed records to the archive.
Access Methods
NOTE: This database is static and is no longer being updated.
Complete NCEI Earthquake Strong Motion Database
The database file(MS Excel; 5M) contains more than 15,670 records.
Download the Strong Motion Database
CD Collection
These data were originally available on a three-volume CD collection. The contents of each volume are available for download.
- Volume 1: California records for 1933-1988, Montana, Nevada, and Washington records
- Volume 2: California records for 1989-1994 and all other non-California USA records
- Volume 3: Non-USA records
Specifications
All of the digitized strong motion data are arranged into sets grouped by either triggering events or geographic regions. These sets are identified by a particular dataset number (such as SM-USACA01 or SM-TAI04). Most of the datasets include three types of processed records: uncorrected (raw), corrected (filtered), and response spectra (includes Fourier spectra). Each dataset is distributed with documentation containing (when available) information on the triggering earthquakes, recording stations, record processing procedures, and data format.
Other Sources of Earthquake Strong Motion Data
- COSMOS, Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems
- Four mirror sites of the European Strong Motion Database: United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Iceland
- National Strong Motion Project (NSMP), U.S. Geological Survey
- California Geological Survey
- University of Southern California, Civil Engineering Department
- SMDB: The Strong Motion DataBase, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), University of California Santa Barbara, CA
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
- Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, University of Washington
- SAC Steel Project
- Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, (ITSAK), Greece
- GeoNet, New Zealand
- Kyoshin Net, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan
- Swiss National Strong Motion Network, Swiss Seismological Service
