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Test area for seismic hazard assessment in the Caucasus

Objetivo



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).

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ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA
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Via Vigna Murata 605
00143 ROMA
Italia

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