Recent Applications of Seismic Hazard Assessment
A special issue of GeoHazards (ISSN 2624-795X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 4807
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The forecast of accelerations expected at a site during a future timespan of the order of tens of years plays a basic role in the definition of effective strategies for seismic risk reduction. In the last 20–30 years, the use of probabilistic concepts has allowed for uncertainties in the size, location and occurrence rate of earthquakes and in the variation in ground motion characteristics, to be explicitly considered in the evaluation of seismic hazards. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) provides a framework in which these uncertainties can be quantified and combined, offering a rational context for risk management by considering the exceedance probability of the ground motion against which a structure is designed. This allows the incorporation of PSHA into seismic risk estimates and the quantitative comparison of different options in making decisions. Seismic hazard models continue to be a topic of great importance within the scientific and stakeholder’s community, who use them in the regulatory, insurance, civil protection and territorial planning fields. The following themes are developed in this Special Issue:
- Use and integration of probabilistic and deterministic approaches in Seismic Hazard Analysis;
- Logic trees, epistemic and aleatory uncertainty in SHA;
- Integration of standard methodologies with the contribution, in probabilistic terms, of other types of data (seismic, geological, geodetic) and estimation models;
- Computer codes in SHA;
- Long-, medium-, and short-term seismic hazard models, dependent on or independent of time, and comparison with experiences at European and international levels;
- Dissemination and communication of studies and results to stakeholders and population.
Prof. Dr. Fabio Sabetta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PSHA
- DSHA
- Earthquake catalogs
- Seismic sources
- Recurrence relations
- GMPEs
- Return period
- Time-dependent models
- Logic trees
- Epistemic and aleatory uncertainty
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