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COSMOS Strong-Motion Virtual Data Center

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Overview The COSMOS Strong-Motion Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an unrestricted web-based search engine for access to worldwide earthquake strong-motion ASCII data files (http://db.cosmos-eq.org). It provides an interactive resource for research and practicing earthquake engineers, earth scientists, and government and emergency response professionals. Users have a wide range of access options; using the VDC, they may search for specific characteristics of the data, view data in a geographical perspective, preview records, compare response spectra with design spectra and download the data and metadata of most interest to them.

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Publisher	University of California	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Search Strategies, Web Services, Data Center

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