Files provided in the Geological Survey of Canada's Open File 5814:
Estimated Seismic Design Values for Canadian Missions Abroad

All files are plain ASCII text unless otherwise indicated. pdf documents can be 
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OF5814_AdamsHalchukAwatta.pdf - Open File 5814 report (Adobe pdf format)

OF5814_Missions_2%in50spectra.xls – Microsoft Excel file provides approximate 
seismic values for design of embassy buildings.  The values are based on the 
GSHAP (10%/50 year PGA) map values adjusted to give spectral values at 2% in 50 
years.  See report for further details.

OF5814_conversionfactorsfrom10%PGAto2%final.xls - Microsoft Excel file provides 
conversion factors from 10%/50 year PGA values to 2% in 50 year spectral values.

OF5814_Missions_sp_category.kmz – Google Earth file that for each Canadian 
mission contains the estimated Sa(0.2) and Sa(1.0) hazard values at 2%/50 year 
probability, along with the RVS short period seismic hazard category. Where 
available, additional information on the mission’s age, area, and number of 
floors has been provided. For use with Google Earth, available for download
from earth.google.com

OF5814_README.txt - explanation of files (this document)

licence_e.pdf - End-user agreement for digital data (Adobe pdf format)

OF5814_Missions – directory which contains subdirectories for 90 locations:

Abidjan, AbuDhabi, Abuja, Accra, AddisAbaba, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Anchorage, 
Ankara, Athens, Auckland, Bamako, BandarSeriBegawan, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beirut, 
Belgrade, Berne, Bogota, Bratislava, Bridgetown, Brussels, Budapest, Canberra, 
Caracas, Chandigarh, Damascus, Dhaka, Dubai, Geneva, Guadalajara, GuatemalaCity, 
Hanoi, Havana, Hiroshima, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kigali, 
Kingston, KualaLumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, LaPaz, Lima, Lisbon, LosAngeles, Managua, 
Manila, Mexico, Montreal, Nagoya, NewDelhi, PaloAlto, Panama, Phoenix, 
PortauPrince, PortofSpain, Quito, Rabat, Ramallah, Reykjavik, Rome, SanDiego, 
SanFrancisco, SanJose, SanSalvador, Santiago, SantoDomingo, Sapporo, Sarajevo, 
Seattle, Singapore, Sofia, Sydney, Taipei, Tegucigalpa, Tehran, TelAviv, Tokyo, 
Tripoli, Tucson, Tunis, Vatican, Vienna, Wellington, Zagreb


All of the individual location directories contain the following files:

LocationName.txt - earthquake solutions extracted from the ISC database in the 
vicinity of the city’s coordinates.  Entries are in ISC format and a header 
describing each of the columns is included in the file.

LocationName-hist.txt - earthquakes extracted from the NOAA Significant 
Earthquakes World Wide database within 500 km of the city’s coordinates. Entries 
are in NOAA format and column headings are labelled in the file.

For some of the locations, the following additional files were generated:

LocationName.eqdatMW.xls – Excel spreadsheet listing combined catalogs converted 
to Moment magnitude Mw and plotted to show completeness years.  Columns in the 
spreadsheet are: Year, MonthDay, Latitude, Longitude, Equivalent Moment 
Magnitude, Depth(km), Agency, Original Magnitude, Original Magnitude type.

LocationName.beta.ps – postscript image showing magnitude recurrence curves 
determined for the city.

LocationName.feltat.ps – postscript image showing the estimated intensity of 
shaking of all earthquakes in the combined catalog.