UC Berkeley

1906 Ground Motion Simulations

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley scientists, working with the U.S. Geological Survey, have contributed to new computer models that re-create the ground motions from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The results of these simulations will be used by earthquake engineers to assess the likely impacts of future earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault.

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

As an Organized Research Unit under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory brings together faculty from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley to study earthquakes and Earth structure.

Northern California Earthquake Data Center

The Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC) is a joint project of the University of California Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The NCEDC is a long-term archive and distribution center for seismological and geodetic data for Northern and Central California.

The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation at Berkeley

NEES is a shared national network of 15 experimental facilities, collaborative tools, a centralized data repository, and earthquake simulation software, all linked by the ultra-high-speed Internet2 connections of NEESgrid. Together, these resources provide the means for collaboration and discovery in the form of more advanced research based on experimentation and computational simulations of the ways buildings, bridges, utility systems, coastal regions, and geomaterials perform during seismic events.

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) operates programs aimed at cost-effective reduction of earthquake losses, with emphasis in the following areas: Understanding and mitigating the potential for collapse in older building construction so that major life losses can be avoided; Developing performance-based approaches for design of buildings and transportation and utility lifelines to provide life-safety protection for all construction, and protection of economic and functional objectives for essential facilities and operations.