Edinboro, PA: what USGS's seismic model says

Edinboro carries Seismic Design Category A under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. That puts Edinboro in the 15th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 15% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

How Edinboro compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.057g, short-period spectral response 0.111g, 1-second spectral response 0.041g. Among 193 Pennsylvania cities in this dataset, Edinboro ranks 167 for seismic hazard, the 14th percentile within the state. About 5,814 people live in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

Retrofit economics for Edinboro

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Pennsylvania. A typical retrofit still runs $5,000-$10,000 nationally, about $7,000 for a common single-family job.

Insuring against this, not just retrofitting

Outside California, earthquake coverage is typically sold as an endorsement added to a standard homeowners policy, not a separate product - worth asking about directly when getting a home-insurance quote for a Edinboro address.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide covers exactly how USGS's public design-maps API produced Edinboro's numbers. The guide to what a Seismic Design Category actually means covers why a category is never a substitute for an engineer's assessment of one specific house.