New Brighton, PA: what USGS's seismic model says

Under the seismic model IBC and ASCE 7 use for new construction, New Brighton is Category B. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. That puts New Brighton in the 26th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 26% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

How New Brighton compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.046g, short-period spectral response 0.094g, 1-second spectral response 0.045g. Among 193 Pennsylvania cities in this dataset, New Brighton ranks 116 for seismic hazard, the 40th percentile within the state. About 5,517 people live in New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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.

What this means for insurance

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 New Brighton address.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide covers exactly how USGS's public design-maps API produced New Brighton'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.