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Earthquake hazard - NDGF024
Title: Zemětřesné ohrožení
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2012
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: RNDr. Ivo Opršal, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (10.05.2012)
A practical guide to deterministic and probabilistic hazard in seismology.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (10.05.2012)

A student, who is able to assess seismic hazard for a region of interest by probabilistic, deterministic, and seismic scenario approaches.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature - Czech
Last update: T_KG (10.05.2012)

• Cornell, C., A., 1968. Engineering Seismic Risk Analysis, Bull. Seism. Soc.

Am. 58, 1583-1606.

• Natural Hazards, 1989, 2. TERESA related articles.

• Schenk, V. (editor), 1996. Earthquake hazard and risk, Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Netherlands.

• Reiter, L., 1990. Earthquake Hazard Analysis - Issues and insights, Columbia University

Press, New York.

• Schenk, V. (editor), 1997. New Phenomena in Ground Motion, Earthquake Hazard and Risk

Evaluation, Natural Hazards special issue, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 15, pp

101-249.

• Bolt B., 2005. Earthquakes, W. H. Freeman; Fifth Edition edition

• Wallace R. E. (editor), 1991. The San Andreas Fault System, California. U.S. Geological Survey,

Professional Paper 1515, United States Government Printing Office, Washington

Further reading:

• Shah, H., 1995. Managing Seismic Risk, Lecture notes in Stanford University

• Hanks, T. C. , and C. A. Cornell. 1994. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis:

A Beginner's Guide. The Proceedings of the. Fifth Symposium on Current Issues

Related to Nuclear Power Plant Structures, Equipment and Piping, pp. I/1-1 to

T/1-17, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

• SSHAC (Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee). Recommendations for

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: Guidance on Uncertainty and Use of

Experts, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission report CR-6372, Washington DC.

• WGCEP (Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities) (1995).

Seismic hazards in southern California: probable earthquakes, 1994 to 2024. Bull.

Seism. Soc. Am., 85, 379-439.

• Natural Disasters and Vulnerability Analysis,Report of Expert Group Meeting, 9-12 July

1979, UNDRO, Geneva 1980

Software

Bender, B., Perkins, D., M., 1987. SEISRISK III: A Computer Program for Seismic Hazard

Estimation.

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (10.05.2012)

Lecture

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (10.05.2012)

1. Natural Hazard, Earthquake Hazard

2. Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk

3. Hazdard assesment methods

4. Four steps of probabilistic (PSHA) and deterministic hazard analysis

5. Probability, Poisson process, Time-Dependent Hazard

6. PGA, Response spectra

7. Determnistic aspects of probabilistic hazard calculations, epistemic and aleatory unertainties

8. Earthquake scenarios

9. Case studies - Hazard assesment for Switzerland, GSHAP

10. Earthquake engineering, risk mitigation by aniseismic design, earthquake effects prediction.

 
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