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In the second stage, a multi-layer feed-forward neural network learns to relate the response spectrum to the compressed Fourier spectrum. A simple example, in which thirty accelerograms are used to train the two-stage neural network, is presented to demonstrate how the method works. This two-stage neural network methodology is further extended and enhanced. Two types of new stochastic neural networks that are capable of generating multiple earthquake accelerograms from a single response spectrum are presented. The stochastic neural networks have been combined with a new data compression scheme using replicator neural networks. A benefit of this extended neural network methodology is gaining efficiency in compressing the earthquake accelerograms and extracting their characteristics. The proposed method produces a stochastic ensemble of earthquake accelerograms, from any single response spectrum or design spectrum. 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