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Earthquake hazard

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NDGF024

Syllabus

1. Natural Hazard, Earthquake Hazard

2. Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk

3. Hazdard assesment methods

4. Four steps of probabilistic (PSHA) and deterministic hazard analysis

5. Probability, Poisson process, Time-Dependent Hazard

6. PGA, Response spectra

7. Determnistic aspects of probabilistic hazard calculations, epistemic and aleatory unertainties

8. Earthquake scenarios

9. Case studies - Hazard assesment for Switzerland, GSHAP

10. Earthquake engineering, risk mitigation by aniseismic design, earthquake effects prediction.

Annotation

A practical guide to deterministic and probabilistic hazard in seismology.