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). Programa(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Tema(s) 53 - Geophysics Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación Data not available Coordinador ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via Vigna Murata 605 00143 ROMA Italia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (7) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Academy of Sciences of Georgia Georgia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 380093 Tbilisi Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Institute of Seismology Túnez Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 744000 Ashgabat Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Institute of Seismology Azerbaiyán Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 37001 Baku Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos International Institute of Earthquake Rusia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 113556 Moscow Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ucrania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 333001 Simferopol Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos National Survey for Earthquake Protection Armenia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 375054 Yerevan Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Russian Academy of Sciences Rusia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 109651 Moscow Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos