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STRONGMO, the tool you are currently using, is part of the
NCEER Strong Ground Motion Facility's effort to develop a data base
in which strong ground motion data is retrievable over a telecommuni-
cations line or a computer network. The tool is still in its experi-
mental stages, so be wary. Presently the user has the capability to
interogate the NCEER Strong Motion Data Base and then retrieve selected
strong motion data (both parametric and time-series) via kermit, a
communications program developed at Columbia University. The tool also
provides the user with the ability to: contact staff at Lamont via
electronic mail; find out the latest status of the NCEER/Lamont Digital
Strong-Motion Network; and retrieve raw data retrieved from the Network.
The Data Base consists of a comprehensive collection of earth- quake, strong motion record, time-series, and recording site parameters. One of the most important features of the Data Base is that it contains the actual time-histories on-line in a consistent format (the AH format developed at Lamont). The Data Base is in a relational format which allows for complex queries on the data. The data itself comes from two different sources; 20 digitally recording accelerographs operated by Lamont and NCEER and over 50 magnetic tapes that were purchased from several strong- motion data archiving agencies, including: the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado; Calif. Div. of Mines and Geology; and the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.
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