National capital of India, Delhi is under moderate to high seismic hazard due to active regional faults such as the Mahendragarh fault, the Delhi Haridwar fault, the Sohna fault, the Delhi Meerut fault and the Rajasthan boundary fault. In addition, Delhi is also located within 200km radial distance from Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) and […]
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Kumar, A., Harinarayan, N.H. and Baro, O. (2017), Nonlinear soil response to ground motions during different earthquakes in Nepal, to arrive at surface response spectra, Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-017-2751-4
Catastrophic damages reported during an earthquake include building damages, excessive ground shaking, uneven settlements, liquefaction etc. While most of the seismic hazard studies map the probable level of ground shaking at the bedrock level, their use in assessing the above damages is very limited until the response of the local soil is also taken into […]
Read MoreAnbazhagan P., Smitha C V and Abhishek Kumar (2014), Representative Seismic Hazard Map of Coimbatore, India, Engineering Geology, Vol. 171, 81-95.
The seismic hazard value of any region depends upon three important components such as probable earthquake location, maximum earthquake magnitude and the attenuation equation. This paper presents a representative way of estimating these three important components considering region specific seismotectonic features. Rupture Based Seismic Hazard Analysis (RBSHA) given by Anbazhagan et al. (2011) is used […]
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