Cooperative Agreement EMW2021CA00023

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) was awarded a $320,000 cooperative agreement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Earthquake State Assistance program (CFDA #97.082) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. As part of FEMA's National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, the award will support EERI's Earthquake Consortium to address earthquake risks. The Consortium will likely provide services and products to reduce earthquake hazards...

This $1,559,996 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807), supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast region. The University of Oregon, along with partners at the University of California Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington, and University of Oregon, will collaborate to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) program, supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast. The $2,478,580 award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2027, will enable the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and its collaborators at the University of...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) will provide $3,319,999.87 to support the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the United States from August 15, 2024 through August 14, 2027. The award will fund activities to complete the sensor station network, remediate underperforming stations, and operate and maintain the...

This $3,100,000 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807), supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast. Key activities include: Completing the sensor station network, remediating underperforming stations, and operating and maintaining all stations to ensure continuous and secure data flow to the regional processing...

The Applied Technology Council (ATC) received a $240,000 cooperative agreement award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Earthquake State Assistance program (CFDA #97.082) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. As part of FEMA's National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, the award will support ATC's Earthquake Consortium to address earthquake risks. The Consortium provides technical and engineering services focused on advancing earthquake safety and...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $740,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop the QUAKEWORX software framework. This framework will enable a wide community of users to access state-of-the-art physics-based models for forecasting and simulating earthquakes, earthquakes ruptures, and seismic hazards. The project, funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) provides $839,500 in funding to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to manage and maintain the high-quality infrastructure for the Northern California Seismic System (NCSS). The key activities under this 5-year award, which runs from February 2025 to January 2030, include operating and maintaining seismic stations and data processing...

This $3.2 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey will fund the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) to conduct earthquake research from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The research is part of the U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) and will focus on developing improved models for earthquakes and seismic ground motion through collaborative research efforts. Key activities include developing workflows to integrate...

The University of Memphis was awarded a $792,001 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) to operate the CERI Seismic Network in the Central and Southeast United States from 2025 to 2030. The purpose of this award is to provide funding for seismic monitoring activities, including routine seismograph station operation and maintenance, state of health monitoring, rapid production of earthquake information, web page and catalog...