The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview of model and implications

MD Petersen, AM Shumway, PM Powers… - Earthquake …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
During 2017–2018, the National Seismic Hazard Model for the conterminous United States
was updated as follows:(1) an updated seismicity catalog was incorporated, which includes …

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis at regional and national scales: State of the art and future challenges

MC Gerstenberger, W Marzocchi, T Allen… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic hazard modeling is a multidisciplinary science that aims to forecast earthquake
occurrence and its resultant ground shaking. Such models consist of a probabilistic …

Empirical equations for the prediction of PGA, PGV, and spectral accelerations in Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the Middle East

S Akkar, JJ Bommer - Seismological Research Letters, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The true performance of ground-motion prediction equations is often not fully appreciated
until they are used in practice for seismic hazard analyses and applied to a wide range of …

Recent and future developments in earthquake ground motion estimation

J Douglas, B Edwards - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Seismic hazard analyses (SHA) are routinely carried out around the world to understand the
hazard, and consequently the risk, posed by earthquake activity. Whether single scenario …

On the selection of ground-motion prediction equations for seismic hazard analysis

JJ Bommer, J Douglas… - Seismological …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A key element in any seismic hazard analysis is the selection of appropriate ground-motion
prediction equations (GMPEs). In an earlier paper, focused on the selection and adjustment …

NGA-East ground-motion characterization model part I: Summary of products and model development

CA Goulet, Y Bozorgnia, N Kuehn, L Al Atik… - Earthquake …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present an overview of the research project NGA-East, Next Generation
Attenuation for Central and Eastern North America (CENA), and summarize the key …

Earthquake hazard and risk analysis for natural and induced seismicity: towards objective assessments in the face of uncertainty

JJ Bommer - Bulletin of earthquake engineering, 2022 - Springer
The fundamental objective of earthquake engineering is to protect lives and livelihoods
through the reduction of seismic risk. Directly or indirectly, this generally requires …

A SSHAC level 3 probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for a new-build nuclear site in South Africa

JJ Bommer, KJ Coppersmith… - Earthquake …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A probabilistic seismic hazard analysis has been conducted for a potential nuclear power
plant site on the coast of South Africa, a country of low-to-moderate seismicity. The hazard …

The 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model: Subduction ground-motion models

S Rezaeian, PM Powers, J Altekruse… - Earthquake …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The US Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Models (NSHMs) are used to calculate
earthquake ground-shaking intensities for design and rehabilitation of structures in the …

Capturing epistemic uncertainty in site response

A Rodriguez-Marek, JJ Bommer… - Earthquake …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The incorporation of local amplification factors (AFs) determined through site response
analyses has become standard practice in site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis …