The overall goals of this cooperative agreement are to facilitate collaboration between the USGS and caltech to advance the state of the art of seismic and geologic hazards research and mitigation and…

The overall goals of this cooperative agreement are to facilitate collaboration between the USGS and caltech to advance the state of the art of seismic and geologic hazards research and mitigation and to provide space for USGS offices and facilities on caltechs main campus in pasadena CA. The USGS earthquake science center ESC pasadena office has been on the caltech campus since 1973. Originally established to develop the southern california seismic network scsn IT now houses a substantial part of the ESC. The ESC is charged with operating instrument networks for earthquake monitoring which IT conducts cooperatively with caltech. Those operations from the collection of earthquake data through the creation of earthquake information products and distribution to users are covered by cooperative agreement #G20AC00037. In addition USGS and caltech collaborate on the development and operation of the USGS shakealert earthquake early warning system. This work from scientific research to improve the shakealert system to software development efforts to operationalize scientific innovations and improve the underlying algorithms to realtime data and product delivery.