COSMOS Mission Statement
To expand and modernize significantly the acquisition and application of strong-motion data in order to increase public safety from earthquakes.
Objectives
The purposes of COSMOS are to:
- Develop national policies and foster innovative ideas for the urgent improvement of strong-motion earthquake measurements and their
applications;
- Promote the advancement of strong-motion measurement
on the ground and in structures and lifelines
in densely urbanized areas and other locations of special significance to society likely to be struck by future earthquakes;
- Encourage and assist the rapid, convenient, and responsive
distribution of strong ground-motion data according to standards
of the Consortium;
- Serve as a consortium through which programs, institutions,
and engineers can work to solve mutual problems with recording instruments
of all appropriate types, data formatting and dissemination,
and data utilization; and
- Improve user influence on data acquisition and multipurpose data
dissemination processes.
For more information on COSMOS objectives, please see the
COSMOS charter.