5) Seismic risk (PAGER) maps and data for South America
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Publication Date
2018-08-10
Citation
Petersen, M.D., Harmsen, S.C., Jaiswal, K.S., Rukstales, K.S., Luco, N., Haller, K.M., Mueller, C.S., and Shumway, A.M., 2018, Seismic Hazard, Risk, and Design for South America: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Wm1BK1.
Summary
The probabilistic hazard models are used in conjunction with the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) empirical vulnerability relationships (Jaiswal and Wald, 2010, 2011) to calculate seismic risk. The vulnerability relationships are country specific and were used to estimate fatalities and economic losses from earthquake ground shaking. These relationships are highly approximate and are a proxy approach to quantifying earthquake losses. Accuracy can vary by an order of magnitude for places that lack empirical loss data. Jaiswal, K. S., and Wald, D.J., 2010, An empirical model for global earthquake fatality estimation, Earthquake Spectra 26, 1017-1037. Jaiswal, K. S., and Wald, D.J., 2011, Rapid estimation [...]
Summary
The probabilistic hazard models are used in conjunction with the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) empirical vulnerability relationships (Jaiswal and Wald, 2010, 2011) to calculate seismic risk. The vulnerability relationships are country specific and were used to estimate fatalities and economic losses from earthquake ground shaking. These relationships are highly approximate and are a proxy approach to quantifying earthquake losses. Accuracy can vary by an order of magnitude for places that lack empirical loss data.
Jaiswal, K. S., and Wald, D.J., 2010, An empirical model for global earthquake fatality estimation, Earthquake Spectra 26, 1017-1037.
Jaiswal, K. S., and Wald, D.J., 2011, Rapid estimation of the economic consequences of global earthquakes, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1116, 47 p.
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Petersen, M.D., Harmsen, S.C., Jaiswal, K.S., Rukstales, K.S., Luco, N., Haller, K.M., Mueller, C.S., and Shumway, A.M., 2018, Seismic Hazard, Risk, and Design for South America, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Volume 108, Number 2, p. 781–800.
