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Measuring the Stringency of Building Height Regulations

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel methodology to measure the stringency of building height regulations. This measure gauges the difference in building heights with and without regulations. The primary challenge is to recover unobserved building heights in the absence of regulations.
Yusuke Adachi
wiley   +1 more source

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Perspectives on Japan's Nuclear Energy Policy: Implications for Energy Demand and Economic Growth

, 2000
Paper from Energy Forum study "Japanese Energy Security and Changing Global Energy Markets: An Analysis of Northeast Asian Energy Cooperation and Japan"s Evolving Leadership Role in the Region"This report reflects an effort to assess the status of ...
Sickles, Robin C., Spanos, Pol, Sofiolea, Eleftheria   +2 more
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Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Jamaica

, 2013
A probabilistic seismic hazard analysis was performed to generate seismic hazard maps for Jamaica. The analysis was thenconducted using a standard logic-tree appro ach that allowed systematically taking into account the model-ba sed (i.e., epistemic ...
Mannette, G, null Garth Mannette, Salazar1,W, null Lyndon Brown, null Walter Salazar, Brown, L   +5 more
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Towards national risk-targeted seismic hazard maps for mainland China

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
The global adoption of risk-targeted hazard models as the basis for seismic design has significantly increased over the past decade. In contrast, the current Chinese National Seismic Design Code relies on a uniform hazard map, which does not ensure ...
Meng Zhang, Hua Pan, Yaohu Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable and Seismically Resilient Confined Masonry: Global Progress in Research and Design Practice

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
Modern confined masonry (CM) construction consists of masonry walls confined by reinforced concrete (RC) tie‐columns and tie‐beams. When built correctly, CM buildings have shown good performance in earthquake's shaking. Even though CM construction has been practised for almost a century in some Latin American countries, its use and standardisation are ...
Ahsana Parammal Vatteri, Svetlana Brzev, Dina D’Ayala, Sergio M. Alcocer, Sebastian Kaminski, Vaibhav Singhal, Aidarbek Stamov, Anna Pavan, Daniel Quiun, Dexter Lo, Erwin Lim, Hemant B. Kaushik, Juan José Pérez‐Gavilán, Julian Thamboo, Mahdi Eghbali, Marcos M. Chávez, Qaisar Ali, Ramesh Guragain, Sofia Andrade, Tim Hart, Ulugbek Begaliev, Yunita Idris, Radu Vacareanu, Daniar Abdykalykov   +23 more
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Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Hazard Assessment in Amol Center, a City in North of Iran [PDF]

Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment, 2012
In this paper, the peak ground acceleration over the bedrock (PGA) is calculated by a probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard assessment. The active fault map of the region is prepared. For this purpose, all active faults in a radius of 100 km of
H.R. Tavakoli, M. Talebzadeh Amiri
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Influence of Site Amplification Approaches in PSRA: Insights From Five Different Cities

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
Regional and national seismic hazard models used in probabilistic seismic risk analysis often rely on generalized proxy‐based site terms to account for ground shaking amplification. This can result in coarse representations of site response, which can introduce bias or additional uncertainty in the associated risk results.
Julián Montejo, Vitor Silva, Bruno Pace, Marco Pagani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suite of Regional Seismic Velocity Models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (CPVMv2.0): Incorporating Epistemic Uncertainty in Velocity Models

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
The U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain (CP) sediments are kilometers‐thick, low‐velocity deposits underlain by high‐velocity bedrock that create regional patterns of amplification and attenuation of ground motions. Capturing these effects is challenging because of the limited subsurface information available, particularly the shear wave velocity (VS)
Cassie Gann‐Phillips, Ashly Cabas, Chunyang Ji, Oliver Boyd, James Kaklamanos, Chris Cramer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for Biases in the Analysis of Building Damage Data for the 2023 M7.8 Türkiye/Syria Earthquake Sequence

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
In the aftermath of a large earthquake, several practical constraints affect the systematic collection of data for assessing building damage. The available data are therefore typically incomplete, frequently missing key information such as the type of construction, age and geographic location.
Max Anderson Loake, Kishor S. Jaiswal
wiley   +1 more source

CyberShake NZ: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis in New Zealand Using Physics‐Based Ground‐Motion Simulations

Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
This study presents the computational components and workflow developed to conduct probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) in New Zealand (NZ) using physics‐based ground‐motion simulations, referred to as “CyberShake NZ.” Semi‐automated procedures generate multiple realizations of kinematic rupture models, create rupture‐specific velocity models ...
Brendon A. Bradley, Moretza Abbasnejadfard, Karim Tarbali, Robin Lee, Sung Bae, Claudio Schill   +5 more
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