As Utah prepares for an overdue, big earthquake, University of Utah seismologists found that current seismic hazard models ...

As Utah prepares for an overdue, big earthquake, University of Utah seismologists found that current seismic hazard models ...

As Utah prepares for an overdue, big earthquake, University of Utah seismologists found that current seismic hazard models ...

results were presented in the form of hazard curves and hazard maps. Hazard curves describe the probability of ground shaking exceeding a certain level at a given location, while hazard maps show ...

tells JIS News that people must pay attention to the primary and secondary hazards of earthquakes. He said if significant ground shaking occurs from an earthquake in an unpopulated area with no ...

Scientists are creating the first data set that will systematically map local earthquake hazards across Metro ... How much will the ground change that shaking?” she said.

Therefore, tough choices are required and decisions about how to allocate resources are often based on earthquake hazard maps to predict ... that measures ground shaking caused by earthquakes ...

“Hazard maps for California as well as Japan ... including the extent that ground shaking depends on local geology, but none of these were big enough to explain the problem,” Gallahue said.

This map from the updated National Seismic Hazard ... Accounting for the amplification elevated the ground shaking hazard for such structures in some major cities, like Seattle, Los Angeles ...

Residents from Merritt Island to Palm Bay reported shaking. Earthquakes happen ... but in the USGS' new National Seismic Hazard Model map it's not zero. In the update, based on a "massive ...