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Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment

Part II: Regional Seismic Hazard and Seismic Microzonation Case Studies

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Editors:
  1. Giuliano F. Panza

    1. Department of Geosciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  2. Kojiro Irikura

    1. Disaster Prevention Research Center, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan

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  3. Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva

    1. Earthquake Engineering Department National Institute of Geophysics, Geodes, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  4. Antonella Peresan

    1. Department of Geosciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  5. Zhenming Wang

    1. Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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  6. Rodolfo Saragoni

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

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  • Provides a fresh, but comprehensive multi-disciplinary, physically sound approach to Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment
  • Bridges the gap between modern interdisciplinary research and problems faced by practitioners in earthquake risk management
  • Motivates a change in perspective with respect to approaches and paradigms

Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)

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Keywords

  • Earthquake predition
  • Ground motion prediction
  • Neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessments
  • Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments
  • Seismic risk analysis
  • Seismic wave propagation

About this book

Issues pertaining to urban risks are a pressing concern for those involved in disasters mitigation. Development of effective mitigation strategies requires sound seismic hazard information that is commonly derived through a seismic hazard assessment (SHA). The purpose of SHA is to provide a scientifically consistent estimate of seismic hazard for engineering design and other considerations. The time is ripe to move beyond the old paradigms of the traditional Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA).

This two-part volume advocates advanced methods for SHA that utilize up to date earthquake science and basic scientific principles to derive the seismic hazard in terms of a ground motion or related quantity and its occurrence frequency at a site, as well as the associated uncertainty. It aims to: (1) identify the issues in the current SHAs, (2) facilitate the development of a scientifically consistent approach for SHA and (3) disseminate, both in scientific and in engineeringpractice societies, advanced reliable tools for independent hazard estimates, like NDSHA (neo-deterministic SHA), which incorporates physically based ground motion models. It provides a fresh approach to seismic hazard analysis.

Part 2 provides advanced SHA case studies, concerning regional national and metropolitan estimates for different parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, North and South America. It is addressed to seismologists, engineers and stake-holders, and aims to contribute to bridging between modern interdisciplinary research and practitioners.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geosciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Giuliano F. Panza, Antonella Peresan

  • Disaster Prevention Research Center, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan

    Kojiro Irikura

  • Earthquake Engineering Department National Institute of Geophysics, Geodes, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva

  • Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Zhenming Wang

  • Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Rodolfo Saragoni

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment

  • Book Subtitle: Part II: Regional Seismic Hazard and Seismic Microzonation Case Studies

  • Editors: Giuliano F. Panza, Kojiro Irikura, Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva, Antonella Peresan, Zhenming Wang, Rodolfo Saragoni

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0091-4Published: 27 May 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 320

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