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Seismic Hazard

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Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics

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Seismic hazard :

Any physical phenomenon associated with an earthquake (e.g., ground motion, ground failure, liquefaction, and tsunami) and its effects on land, man-made structures, and socioeconomic systems that have the potential to produce a loss. The terms are used also without regard to a loss to indicate the probable level of ground shaking occurring at a given point within a certain period of time.

Seismic hazard analysis:

Quantification of the ground motion expected at a particular site or selection of sites.

Deterministic seismic hazard analysis:

Quantification of a single or relatively small number of individual earthquake scenarios.

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis:

Quantification of the rate (or probability) that a specified level of ground motion will be exceeded at least once at a site (or a map of sites) given all possible earthquakes during the specified exposure time.

Ground motion model (known also as ground motion prediction equation):
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Kijko, A. (2020). Seismic Hazard. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_10-1

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