Scenario Earthquakes for Urban Areas Along the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States

by Klaus H. Jacob

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Seismicity
• Seismic Hazard Factors
• Seismic Risk Factors
• Scenario Events, Probability-Based Code Guidelines and Site-Specific Design Ground Motions
• Scenario Events:  Historical Examples, Global Analogs and Hypothetical Scenarios
  • Magnitude M=4 Scenarios
  • Magnitude M=5 Scenarios
  • Magnitude M=6 Scenarios
  • Magnitude M=7 Scenarios
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments and References

"Scenario Earthquakes for Urban Areas Along the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States" was originally published in Economic Consequencesof Earthquakes: Preparing for the Unexpected, MCEER-SP-0001, January 1997)

 

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