2025 PEER LBNL Workshop on the Regional Scale Simulated Ground Motion Database (SGMD) for the San Francisco Bay Area
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are collaborating on the development of the first Regional-scale Simulated Ground Motion Database (SGMD) for the San Francisco Bay Area.
This community workshop will discuss technical aspects of regional scale simulations and the implementation of the database on March 24, 2025 in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
The workshop will include presentations and discussion with technical experts and information on the planned database to inform both the research and infrastructure stakeholder communities.
Time |
Topic/Session |
Speaker |
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Welcome and Workshop Objectives | Khalid Mosalam, PEER |
| 8:50 - 9:10 |
The EQSIM Earthquake Simulation Framework and Plan for Open Access Data Sharing |
David McCallen, LBNL |
|
9:10 - 9:30 |
Selection of Input Motions from Validated Datasets of Regional Simulated Accelerograms |
Roberto Paolucci, Politecnico di Milano |
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9:30 - 9:50 |
Earthquake Source Modeling for Engineering Risk Assessments |
Arben Pitarka, LLNL |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | BREAK | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Use of Physics-based Simulated Motions for Enhanced Damage and Loss Assessments | Chiara Smerzini, Politecnico di Milano |
|
10:30 - 10:55 |
SGMD: Access, Content and User Interface |
Khalid Mosalam, UC Berkeley |
|
10:55 - 11:15 |
Scalable Data Schemas for Future Simulated Ground Motion Datasets |
Houjun Tang, LBNL |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Use of Simulated Motions to Increase Energy System Resilience | Kenneth Hudnut/ John Dai Southern California Edison |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | LUNCH, POSTERS AND DISCUSSION |
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| 1:00 - 1:20 | Simulated Motion Applications with SimCenter R2D for Regional Damage Estimation | Frank McKenna, SimCenter |
| 1:20 - 1:40 | Damage Estimation for Distributed Energy Systems | John Eidinger, G&E Engineering Systems Inc |
| 1:40 - 2:00 | Simulated Motions in Earthquake Early Warning System Evaluations | Angie Lux, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory |
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Seismic Risk and Resilience Assessment of Bridge Networks using Simulated Ground Motions | Henry Burton, UCLA |
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Guiding Ground-motion Selection for Infrastructure Assessment Using Suites of Region-specific Earthquake Simulations | Floriana Petrone, UNR |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | BREAK | |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | What Can Simulated Ground Motions Tell Us About Near-fault Seismic Hazard and Infrastructure Performance? | Maha Kenawy, Oklahoma State University |
| 3:20 - 3:40 | Simulated Ground Motions in the Development of Machine Learning Based Risk Estimations | Domniki Asimaki, Caltech |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Looking Ahead - Southern California Simulations | Ertugrul Taciroglu, UCLA |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Attendee Input for Additional SGMD Features and Options | ALL |