Seismic Hazard Analyses

Dear Colleagues,

Seismic hazard methodologies have been in use for years. As datasets have grown significantly over the last decade, many of the standard simplifying assumptions used in seismic source characterization and ground-motion characterization are now being challenged.

This Special Issue aims to provide a platform to present new approaches to seismic hazard that address the key limitations of the current practices in deterministic and/or probabilistic seismic hazard estimation, leading to improved accuracy in site-specific estimates of seismic hazard. Original research and review articles are welcome. The focus is on ground-motion hazard, but papers on fault-rupture hazard are also welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Removal of the Poisson assumption from PSHA;
• Approaches to maximum magnitudes for sources;
• Approaches to seismic hazard from induced seismicity;
• Estimation of epistemic uncertainty in GMMs beyond weighting existing GMMs;
• Issues in transporting GMMs to other regions;
• Use of results from 3D simulations of ground motions in seismic hazard analyses;
• Approaches to using non-ergodic GMMs in seismic hazard;
• Inclusion of rupture directivity in seismic hazard;
• Determination of the minimum magnitude for inclusion in seismic hazard;
• Methods/results of testing seismic hazard results using observational data;
• Methods for estimating seismic hazard for secondary ground-motion parameters;
• Methods and models for fault rupture hazard;
• Use of epistemic uncertainties from seismic hazard in the development of design ground motions and risk-informed decision making.

Prof. Dr. Norman Abrahamson
Guest Editor

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• non-Poisson PSHA
• maximum magnitude
• minimum magnitude
• 3D simulations of ground motions
• non-ergodic ground-motion models
• uncertainty in seismic hazard
• testing of seismic hazard results