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Seismic hazard assessment for low-seismicity areas — Case study: Northern Germany

✍ Scribed by Gottfried Grünthal; Christian Bosse

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
778 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0921-030X

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✦ Synopsis

The problem of assessing seismic hazard in low-seismicity areas becomes obvious in many practical applications. A typical low-seismicity area, which experienced damaging earthquakes in historical times, is the North German Plain, for which a case study is presented. It is shown how seismic hazard assessments are influenced by different interpretations of historical key earthquakes, changes in b-value as well as variations of the upper bound magnitude assumed for the seismic source regions. The latter strongly influences the hazard results in the case of very low b-values for long return periods.

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