Editors:
- 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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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 1 deals with the general issues of SHA methodology review and development, as well as with recent advances in earthquake science that may have relevant implications toward an improved SHA. It is addressed to seismologists, engineers and stake-holders, and aims to contribute to bridging between modern interdisciplinary research and practitioners.
Keywords
- Earthquake predition
- Ground motion prediction
- Neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessments
- Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments
- Seismic risk analysis
- Seismic wave propagation
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geosciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Giuliano F. Panza, Antonella Peresan
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Disaster Prevention Research Center, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan
Kojiro Irikura
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Earthquake Engineering Department National Institute of Geophysics, Geodes, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva
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Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Zhenming Wang
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rodolfo Saragoni
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment
Book Subtitle: Part I: Seismic Hazard Assessment
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: 978-3-0348-0039-6Published: 27 May 2011
Series ISSN: 2504-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 366