Fig. 2: Earthquake ground motion simulations. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Earthquake ground motion simulations.

From: Accessing acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area after a major hayward earthquake

Fig. 2

a Median peak ground accelerations (PGAs) for the magnitude 7.25 Hayward Fault earthquake scenario analyzed in this study. Map data from https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrightOpenStreetMap ©contributors. b Median PGAs from the 1989 magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake–the largest regional event in more than a century–highlighting that current infrastructure has not experienced shaking intensities projected for the Hayward scenario. Map data from https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrightOpenStreetMap ©contributors. We used 5000 Monte Carlo simulations to conduct the analysis.

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