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Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis and Synthetic Ground Motion Generation for Seismic Risk Assessment of Structures in the Northeast India

Ghosh, Swarup; Chakraborty, Subrata - In: International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 39-59

seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) to obtain hazard curves and an evaluation of the demand model by a nonlinear structural …

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Deterministic seismic hazard analysis considering different seismicity levels for the state of Goa, India

Naik, Nisha; Choudhury, Deepankar - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 1, pp. 557-580

Deterministic seismic hazard analysis (DSHA) is carried out for the state of Goa, which is a small but one of the most …. Hence, it is important to carry out the seismic hazard analysis for Goa, such studies being scarce in literature till date …

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Earthquake hazard of dams along the Mekong mainstream

Pailoplee, Santi - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 3, pp. 1813-1827

In this study, the earthquake hazard was evaluated for all of 19 of the proposed or built dams along the Mekong River. All values representing a potential indication of hazardous earthquakes, such as the closest earthquake and seismogenic faults and including the seismic parameters required for...

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Spatial variation of probabilistic seismic hazard for Mumbai and surrounding region

Desai, Sarika; Choudhury, Deepankar - In: Natural Hazards 71 (2014) 3, pp. 1873-1898

Mumbai city, the economical capital of India, is located on the west coast of stable intra-plate continental region of Peninsular India which has an experience of significant historical earthquakes in the past. The city stood as the fourth most populous city in the world. Recent seismo-tectonic...

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Incorporation of directivity effect in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and disaggregation of Tabriz city

Yousefi, Masood; Taghikhany, Touraj - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 2, pp. 277-301

-frequency cycle pulses in the velocity time history. Current probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) is not able to predict such …

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Source-to-site distance distributions for area type of seismic sources used in PSHA applications

Gupta, I. - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 2, pp. 485-499

The use of recent ground motion prediction equations in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) with area type of …

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An effective procedure for seismic hazard analysis including nonlinear soil response

Yaghmaei-Sabegh, Saman; Motallebzade, Roya - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 2, pp. 1731-1752

This paper presents probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) of Tehran, Iran, accounting the effect of nonlinear …

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Deterministic seismic microzonation of Kolkata city

Shiuly, Amit; Narayan, J. - In: Natural Hazards 60 (2012) 2, pp. 223-240

This paper presents the deterministic seismic microzonation of densely populated Kolkata city situated on the world’s largest delta island with very soft and thick soil deposit in the surficial layers. A fourth-order accurate staggered-grid finite-difference algorithm for SH-wave propagation...

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Ground motion studies for microzonation in Iran

Shafiee, Ali; Kamalian, Mohsen; Jafari, Mohammad; … - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 1, pp. 481-505

deterministic seismic hazard analysis, two-dimensional and three-dimensional modelling of basin and topographical effects, using … hazard analysis. IIEES uses his own fault map for seismotectonic studies and develops modulus and damping curves for the … the steps followed by IIEES in ground motion microzonation. IIEES performs both probabilistic and deterministic seismic …

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A probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for the Makran subduction zone at the northwestern Indian Ocean

Heidarzadeh, Mohammad; Kijko, Andrzej - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 3, pp. 577-593

A probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment is performed for the Makran subduction zone (MSZ) at the northwestern Indian Ocean employing a combination of probability evaluation of offshore earthquake occurrence and numerical modeling of resulting tsunamis. In our method, we extend the Kijko and...

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