Definition
Seismic zonation. The process of subdividing the territory into regions with respect to the level of seismic hazard. The result of seismic zonation is usually presented as a map, which is based on seismic hazard map.
Introduction
Seismic zonation is useful for hazard reduction such as earthquake-resistant design of structures, risk analysis, land-use planning, etc. Many earthquake-prone countries developed seismic zonation maps. Seismic zonation map is usually revised or updated periodically with the progress in methodology and accumulation of new data. Seismic intensity (see Earthquakes, Intensity ) or ground motion parameters such as peak ground acceleration (PGA), peak ground velocity (PGV), and spectral acceleration at specific natural period are mostly adopted in seismic zonation map. In the early stage, most seismic zonation maps were in terms of intensity, but since the 1980s, ground motion parameters have become popular. More commonly, such maps take the exceeding...
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Yu, Y., Gao, M., Xu, G. (2011). Seismic Zonation. In: Gupta, H.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8702-7_184
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