Mehmet Celebi Lind Gee Robert Graves Kishor S. Jaiswal Erol Kalkan Keith L. Knudsen Nico Luco James Smith Jamison Steidl Christopher D. Stephens Brad T. Aagaard 2017 <p>The mission of the National Strong-Motion Project is to provide measurements of how the ground and built environment behave during earthquake shaking to the earthquake engineering community, the scientific community, emergency managers, public agencies, industry, media, and other users for the following purposes: </p><ul><li>Improving engineering evaluations and design methods for facilities and systems;<br></li><li>Providing timely information for earthquake early warning, damage assessment, and emergency response action; and<br></li><li>Contributing to a greater understanding of the mechanics of earthquake rupture, groundmotion characteristics, and earthquake effects.<br></li></ul> application/pdf 10.3133/ofr20171156 en U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey National Strong-Motion Project strategic plan, 2017–22 reports