Objective This research project will establish an international test area for seismic hazard assessment in the Caucasus, in co-operation with the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, the European Seismological Commission, the UN/IDNDR Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Programme, and with organisations in neighbouring countries (Iran, Turkey). The project will focus on networking teams of specialists already active in the main elements of seismic hazard assessment, earthquake catalogues and databases, seismotectonics and earthquake source zones and strong seismic ground seismic motion.Computation of seismic hazard will be performed by testing and comparing different approaches, such as historical probabilism, seismotectonic probabilism, time-dependent seismotectonic probabilism, and real probabilistic assessment. National collections of high-quality geophysical data exist in the region, but the novelty of this project lies in the multidisciplinary, multinational approach to assembling databases and in the comparative testing of several computational methods.Participants in this project will be all the national institutions in charge of data collection and seismic hazard assessment in the five Caucasian countries and in three countries of the Alpine belt, and the two geophysical institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences responsible for seismic hazard computations. Scientists from Turkey and Iran will also participate in this research programme. Expected results include five milestones which will mark the progress of the project, in which each milestone will produce a deliverable and a summary report: historical and instrumental earthquake catalogue and database (after 12 months); models and maps of seismic source zoning (after 12 months); curves of attenuation with distance for strong seismic ground motion (after 18 months); a compilation of algorithms for seismic hazard assessment on a uniform computed platform (after 12 months); models and maps of seismic hazard assessment, obtained using different approaches, on appropriate national and regional scales for the implementation of improved building design and construction in the Caucasian region (after 24 months). Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 53 - Geophysics Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA EU contribution No data Address Via Vigna Murata 605 00143 ROMA Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Academy of Sciences of Georgia Georgia EU contribution No data Address 380093 Tbilisi See on map Total cost No data Institute of Seismology Tunisia EU contribution No data Address 744000 Ashgabat See on map Total cost No data Institute of Seismology Azerbaijan EU contribution No data Address 37001 Baku See on map Total cost No data International Institute of Earthquake Russia EU contribution No data Address 113556 Moscow See on map Total cost No data National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukraine EU contribution No data Address 333001 Simferopol See on map Total cost No data National Survey for Earthquake Protection Armenia EU contribution No data Address 375054 Yerevan See on map Total cost No data Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address 109651 Moscow See on map Total cost No data