A sanity check for earthquake recurrence models used in PSHA of slowly deforming regions: the case of SW Iberia [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA), despite its deep criticism, is still the most common tool used to decide on the acceptable seismic risk and corresponding mitigation measures.
M. Ramalho +6 more
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Seismic Hazard in Greece: A Comparative Study for the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace
GeoHazards, 2023 Greece is located in one of the most seismically active regions in Europe. Many seismic hazard studies have been performed for various sites around Greece, at a regional or local scale.
Dimitris Sotiriadis +3 more
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The Study of Seismic Hazard in Near-Fault Areas Using Probabilistic and Deterministic Approach
Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2023 Earthquake is one of the most common natural disasters in Indonesia and usually destroys both high and low-rise buildings as well as triggers liquefaction and Tsunami.
Grisella Aglia +2 more
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Transposing an active fault database into a seismic hazard fault model for nuclear facilities – Part 1: Building a database of potentially active faults (BDFA) for metropolitan France [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2017 The French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), with the support of the Ministry of Environment, compiled a database (BDFA) to define and characterize known potentially active faults of metropolitan France. The general structure
H. Jomard +6 more
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Consistency of seismic hazard estimates from a physics-based earthquake simulator: a case study in south-eastern Spain [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesEstimating seismic hazard is crucial for enhancing societal resilience and risk mitigation strategies. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) is the current standard framework, traditionally relying on empirical earthquake rupture forecasts (ERFs ...
O. Gómez-Novell +5 more
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Strategies for comparison of modern probabilistic seismic hazard models and insights from the Germany and France border region [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesThe latest generation of national and regional probabilistic seismic hazard assessments (PSHAs) in Europe presents stakeholders with multiple representations of the hazard in many regions.
G. Weatherill +7 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) has been recognized as a reasonable method for quantifying seismic threats. Traditionally, this method ignores the effect of the focal depth, in which the ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) are applied
Xin Guo +4 more
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Energies, 2021 Reliable seismic hazard analyses are crucial to mitigate seismic risk. When dealing with induced seismicity the standard Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) has to be modified because of the peculiar characteristics of the induced events.
Vincenzo Convertito +5 more
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Preparation of same acceleration maps for use in the improvement of structures in Sabzevar city [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, 2021 Seismicity zoning was conducted for different areas of Iran due to general zoning in relative regulations. For increasing reliability in achieving desired safety margin and select a carefully basic acceleration of plan due to the sensitivity of the ...
Hossein Bakhshi, Zaher Rezaie
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Seismic hazard assessment for the Sofia area
Annals of Geophysics, 2001 The capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, is situated in the center of the so-called Sofia area. This is the most populated industrial and cultural region of Bulgaria that faces considerable earthquake risk.
L. Christoskov, S. Simeonova, D. Solakov
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