The Engineering Strong‐Motion Database: A Platform to Access Pan‐European Accelerometric Data

This article describes the Engineering Strong-Motion Database (ESM), developed in the framework of the European project Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation (NERA, see Data and Resour- ces). ESM is specifically designed to provide end users only with quality-checked, uniformly processed strong-motion data and relevant parameters and has done so since 1969 in the Euro- Mediterranean region. The database was designed for a large variety of stakeholders (expert seismologists, earthquake engi- neers, students, and professionals) with a user-friendly and straightforward web interface.
Users can access earthquake and station information and download waveforms of events with magnitude ≥ 4:0 (unprocessed and processed acceleration, velocity, and displacement, and acceleration and displacement response spectra at 5% damping). Specific tools are also available to users to process strong-motion data and select ground-motion suites for code- based seismic structural analyses.