This electronic supplement contains Tables S1 and S2 showing the Next Generation Attenuation-East (NGA-East) station database with VS30 estimates updated according to the recommendations in the main article and a database of VS30 values based on seismic-velocity measurements in central and eastern North America (CENA) used to develop the VS30 proxy presented in the main article, respectively.
Table S1 [Plain Text Comma-separated Values; 636 KB]. Updated NGA-East station database containing VS30 estimates provided using the recommendations presented in Table 3 of the main article.
Table S2 [Plain Text Comma-separated Values; 475 KB]. Database of 2755 VS30 values from seismic-velocity measurements in CENA.
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