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The ROA Earthquake Hazard Atlas project: recent work from the Middle East

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Geohazards

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In 1989 the Reinsurance Offices Association (ROA) of London initiated an Earthquake Hazard Atlas project. The principal aim of this is to facilitate access to information concerning exposure to earthquake hazard, presenting standardised data in a format that enables them to be accessed and incorporated into hazard and risk assessments with relative ease, and hopefully ensures their usefulness to a wide range of people.

This paper provides an overview of the project and illustrates its various components through reference to recently published parts for the Middle East. These include a regional hazard assessment (based upon a review of tectonic setting and historical and 20th-century earthquake data), a national analysis for Israel (based upon a new hazard zonation for the state) and a new database of historical earthquake activity in the region. New atlas parts are currently being compiled, and it is intended that with time the atlas will build up to provide comprehensive, standardised coverage for all seismic regions of concern. As such, it may help to address one of the key issues that has hindered earthquake hazard mitigation to date, that of data dissemination: the fact that so often the data needed to ensure sensible hazard management practice exist but are not readily accessible to those who most need them.

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  1. Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK

    G. J. H. McCall (Consultant and Fellow) (Consultant and Fellow)

  2. Herrington Geoscience, Exeter, UK

    D. J. C. Laming (Consultant) (Consultant)

  3. Geological Hazards Assessment, Mitigation and Information Unit, Department of Geological Sciences, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, UK

    S. C. Scott (Co-ordinator) (Co-ordinator)

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Degg, M.R. (1992). The ROA Earthquake Hazard Atlas project: recent work from the Middle East. In: McCall, G.J.H., Laming, D.J.C., Scott, S.C. (eds) Geohazards. AGID Report Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2310-5_10

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