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Digital Data
The ASCE 7 Hazard Tol provides digital data required by ASCE 7-22:
Ch. 5 Flood: Flood zone and static base flood elevation plus direct links to additional informationCh. 6 Tsunami: Whether the site is in a mapped tsunami design zone per the ASCE Tsumami Design Gedatabase and link to ASCE Tsunami Design Geodatabase if required for designCh. 7 Snow: Ground snow load and winter wind parameterCh.10 Ic: Radial ice thickness with concurrent3-second gust speeds and temperature concurrent with ice Ch. 8 Rain: Median 15-minute and 60-minute duration rainfall intensities for 100-year mean recurrence intervalthickness due to freezing rainCh.22 Seismi: eismic coefficents SsS SSSsSTPGAandV plus the seismc dsinand the two-period MCE spectrum category as well as the multi-period spectrum the multi-period MCEs spectrum the two-period design spectrum Ch. 26 Wind: Three-second gust wind speeds at 33 feet (10 meters) above ground for Exposure Category C including identification of hurricane-prone and wind-borme debris regionsMRI nd fo 12000 000 000 0000 1 0 - and 400 00f target aas Ch. 32 Tornado: Tomado wind speeds for 1 700- 3 000- 10 000- 100 000- 1 000 000- and 10 000 000-year