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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ considered in other industries such as real estate lending. A 9-member steering
academic and industry experts provides technical oversight and recommendations to the NSHMP.
An NSHM defines the set of likely earthquake sources and their rates in a particular region. Given
parameters of the earhtquake source and a site of interest, ground motion models (GMMs) are used
parameters of the earthquake source and a site of interest, ground motion models (GMMs) are used
to estimate ground shaking from the set of earthquakes. The NSHMP routinely updates NSHMs for the
U.S. and its territories to consider the best available science.
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