Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS)

The purposes of COSMOS are to:

1. Develop national policies and foster innovative ideas for the urgent improvement of strong-motion earthquake measurements and their applications;
2. 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;
3. Encourage and assist the rapid, convenient, and responsive distribution of strong ground-motion data according to standards of the Consortium;
4. 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
5. Improve user influence on data acquisition and multipurpose data dissemination processes.