SSA Abstract Tracking Number: 01-273

Title: THE CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED SEISMIC NETWORK

Names and Affiliations of the Authors: 
OPPENHEIMER, D., and ZOBACK, M.L, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA 94025; 
GEE, L., and ROMANOWICZ, B., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; 
JONES, L., and WALD, D., U.S.G.S., Pasadena, CA 91106; 
HAUKSSON, E., and CLAYTON, R., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;  
SHAKAL, T., and DAVIS, J., California Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, CA  95814; and 
EISNER, R., Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Oakland, CA 94612

Text of the Abstract: 
The California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) is a newly formed consortium of 
institutions engaged in earthquake monitoring and will represent California as a 
designated region of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS). The CISN is 
dedicated to improving seismic monitoring through statewide coordination, robust 
operation, rapid and reliable earthquake reporting, and seamless access to 
earthquake and engineering strong-motion information archives. The 5 founding (core) 
institutional members are the California Division of Mines and Geology, Caltech, 
UC Berkeley, USGS-Menlo Park, and USGS-Pasadena, but other institutions engaged 
in seismic monitoring in California are invited to join. The California Governor's 
Office of Emergency Services (OES) serves as an ex-officio participant in the CISN. 

The core institutions and OES have signed an MOA that describes the CISN organizational 
goals, products, management, responsibilities of member organizations, and locations of 
operations and data centers. The CISN Steering committee has selected an Advisory committee 
representing the interests of structural engineers, seismologists, emergency managers, 
industry, government, and utilities. It has also formed a Program Management Group to 
address planning and coordination and a Standards committee to resolve technical design 
and implementation issues. The CISN is coordinating its development with similar efforts 
in the ANSS. In 2000 and 2001, the CISN institutions coordinated on the siting of 70 new 
ANSS-funded stations in the San Francisco Bay region and over 150 TriNet-funded stations 
in southern California.  Peak ground motion data recorded on these and similar instruments 
operated by the CISN partners are now routinely used to construct ShakeMaps in near 
real-time for all of California. Further information about CISN can be found at 
http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cisn/.