Lessons learnt from the destructive earthquakes occurred during the new millennium
provide new opportunities to take action, revise, and improve the procedure for seismic
hazard assessment (SHA). A single hazard map cannot meet the requirements from different
end-users; the mapping of the expected earthquake ground motion that accounts for events'
recurrence may be suitable for insurances. When dealing with cultural heritage and critical
structures (eg, nuclear power plants), where it is necessary to consider extremely long time …