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- Title
Territorial exceedance of probabilistic seismic hazard from ShakeMap data.
- Authors
Cito, Pasquale; Vitale, Antonio; Iervolino, Iunio
- Abstract
Current seismic structural design makes use of a ground motion intensity that has a certain probability of being exceeded at a site of interest in a time interval or, equivalently, exceedance return period. The design intensities with the same return period are often collected in the form of maps deriving from probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) for each of the sites of interest. Probability theory underlying PSHA dictates that, in any time interval, design intensities are expected to be exceeded in a fraction of sites that depends on the return period the map refers to. In the case of Italy, three different nationwide PSHA studies can be currently considered of relevance. In the study, the estimated areal fraction of the Italian territory exposed to exceedance of the design intensity from 2008 to 2019 was quantified for the three hazard models, based on ShakeMap data for instrumental earthquakes. In addition, the same fraction was calculated considering a sparse catalog of inferred ShakeMap for historical earthquakes that occurred over almost 1000 years. It was found that, despite the apparent differences in the hazard models, the estimated fraction of territory exposed to exceedance is comparable for all the considered hazard maps.
- Subjects
ITALY; EARTHQUAKE hazard analysis; EARTHQUAKE intensity; GROUND motion; EARTHQUAKE resistant design; PROBABILITY theory; HAZARDS; STRUCTURAL design; HAZARD mitigation
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-024-55415-9