Real-time probabilistic seismic hazard assessment based on seismicity anomaly
<p>Real-time probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) was developed in this study in consideration of its practicability for daily life and the rate of seismic activity with time. Real-time PSHA follows the traditional PSHA framework, but the statistic occurrence rate is substituted by t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/20/743/2020/nhess-20-743-2020.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Real-time probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) was developed in this study in consideration of its practicability for daily life and the
rate of seismic activity with time. Real-time PSHA follows the traditional PSHA framework, but the statistic occurrence rate is substituted by
time-dependent seismic source probability. Over the last decade, the pattern informatics (PI) method has been developed as a time-dependent
probability model of seismic source. We employed this method as a function of time-dependent seismic source probability, and we selected two major
earthquakes in Taiwan as examples to explore real-time PSHA. These are the Meinong earthquake (<span class="inline-formula"><i>M</i><sub>L</sub></span> 6.6) of 5 February 2016 and the
Hualien earthquake (<span class="inline-formula"><i>M</i><sub>L</sub></span> 6.2) of 6 February 2018. The seismic intensity maps produced by the real-time PSHA method facilitated the
forecast of the maximum expected seismic intensity for the following 90 d. Compared with real ground motion data from the P-alert network, our
seismic intensity forecasting maps showed considerable effectiveness. This result indicated that real-time PSHA is practicable and provides useful
information that could be employed in the prevention of earthquake disasters.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1561-8633 1684-9981 |