---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7707"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7707"
heading: "Advanced National Seismic System"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7707"
units:
  - "Chapter 86 — Earthquake Hazards Reduction"
---

# §7707. Advanced National Seismic System

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [United States](/usc/42/7703.md?p=5) Geological Survey shall establish and operate an Advanced National [Seismic](/usc/42/7703.md?p=3) System. The purpose of such system shall be to organize, modernize, standardize, and stabilize the national, regional, and urban [seismic](/usc/42/7703.md?p=3) monitoring systems in the [United States](/usc/42/7703.md?p=5), including sensors, recorders, and data analysis centers, into a coordinated system that will measure and record the full range of frequencies and amplitudes exhibited by [seismic](/usc/42/7703.md?p=3) waves, in order to enhance earthquake research and warning capabilities.
- (b) **Management plan—** Not later than 90 days after November 13, 2000, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [United States](/usc/42/7703.md?p=5) Geological Survey shall transmit to the Congress a 5-year management plan for establishing and operating the Advanced National [Seismic](/usc/42/7703.md?p=3) System. The plan shall include annual cost estimates for both [modernization](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=9) and operation, milestones, standards, and performance goals, as well as plans for securing the participation of all existing networks in the Advanced National [Seismic](/usc/42/7703.md?p=3) System and for establishing new, or enhancing existing, partnerships to leverage resources.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–124, § 13, as added Pub. L. 106–503, title II, § 204, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2305; amended Pub. L. 108–360, title I, § 104(b), Oct. 25, 2004, 118 Stat. 1675; Pub. L. 115–307, § 8(b), Dec. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 4417.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–307 substituted “Advanced National Seismic System” for “Advanced National Seismic Research and Monitoring System” in section catchline and wherever appearing in text.

2004—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–360 struck out subsec. (c) which related to authorization of appropriations.