Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment

With the time now ripe for moving beyond the old paradigm of the traditional Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA), this book advocates more advanced methods for SHA that utilize up-to-date earthquake science as well as central scientific principles.

The purposes of this Topical Issue are 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 engineering practice societies, advanced reliable tools for independent hazard estimates, like NDSHA (neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment), which incorporates physically based ground motion models. It provides a fresh approach to seismic hazard analysis. The Topical Issue consists of two parts. The papers published in this volume (Part 2), provide advanced SHA case studies, concerning regional national and metropolitan estimates for different parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, North and South America. Papers dealing with the general issues of SHA methodology review and development are included in Part 1. This volume is addressed to seismologists, engineers and stake-holders, and aims to contribute bridging modern interdisciplinary research and end-users, who have to cope with the problems of the earthquake risk management and natural disasters preparedness.

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CyberShake: A Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California.- Mualchin, L.
History of Modern Earthquake Hazard Mapping and Assessment in California.- Parvez I.A. et al.
Long period ground motion at bedrock level in Delhi city from Himalayan earthquake scenarios.- Vaccari V.et al.
Site Specific Modelling of SH and P-SV Waves for the Microzonation Study of Kolkata.- Nunziata C.et al.
Modeling of Ground Motion at Napoli for the 1688 Scenario Earthquake.- De Nisco G. et al.
VS Profiles from Noise Cross Correlation at Local and Small Scale.- Paskaleva I. et al.
Neo-Deterministic Seismic Hazard Assessment Aproach to the Earthquake Risk Assessment for Sofia.- Indirli M.et al.
Hazard evaluation in Valparaiso: the MAR VASTO Project.- Peresan A. et al.
Neo-Deterministic Seismic Hazard and Pattern Recognition Techniques: Time Dependent Scenarios.- Sekiguchi H. et al.
Broadband Ground Motion Reconstruction in Kanto Basin due to 1923 Kanto Earthquake.- Matsuzaki S. et al.
Characteristic Rupture Model for the 2001 Geiyo, Japan Earthquake.- Morikawa N. et al.
Shaking Maps for Scenario Earthquakes by Applying an Upgrade-Version of "Recipe".- Sandi H. et al.
A Summary View of Instrumendal Data on Recent Strong Vrancea Earthquakes and Implications for Seismic Hazard.- Melkumyan M., Assessment of the Seismic Risk in Yerevan and its Mitigation by Application of Innovative Seismic Isolation Technologies.- Xie F. et al.
Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments for Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan.- Molchan G. et al.
Hot-cold spots in Italian Macroseismic Data.