GLOBAL SEISMIC HAZARD MAP

ILP

Produced by the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP), a demonstration project of the UN/International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction, conducted by the International Lithosphere Program.
Global map assembled by D. Giardini, G. Grnthal, K. Shedlock, and P. Zhang 1999
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SSB

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UNESCO
Fairbanks Reykjavk
Anchorage

Yakutsk Oslo Helsinki Stockholm Tallinn Riga Kobenhavn Vilnius Minsk Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt Praha Mnchen Bern Montreal Ottawa Toronto Detroit Salt Lake City Denver Chicago Boston Madrid Lisboa Algiers Tunis Athinai Nicosia Los Angeles Dallas Rabat Tarbulus Bayrt Tel Avi v-Yafo Alexandria Cairo Tehran Barcelona Amsterdam Warszawa Kiev Ulaanbaatar Harbin Almaty T'Bilisi Ankara Yerevan Baku Dushanbe Ashkhabad Seoul Lanzhou Kbol Baghdad Pusan Nagoya Osaka Tokyo Yokohama
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Edinburgh Manchester Dublin Birmingham London
Vancouver Seattle

St. Petersburg

Okhotsk

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Omsk

Novosibirsk Irkutsk

Paris

Milano

New York Philadelphia Washington D.C.

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Urmqi Shenyang Beijing Tianjin P'yngyang Vladivostok

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Thimphu Taipei Dhaka Calcutta Hanoi Hong Kong Guangzhou

Miami Ar Riyad La Habana

Doha
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Karachi Masqat

Mexico City Belmopan Tegucigalpa

Port-au-Prince Kingston

San Juan

Bombay Nouakchott Hyderabad Khartoum Dakar Banjul Bissau Bamako Ouagadougou Asmera San'' Bangalore N'Djamena Dijbouti Madras Krung Thep Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City ds beba Lagos Colombo Bandar Seri Begawan Malabo Bangui Yaound Muqdisho Kampala Kuala Lumpur Singapore Manila Yangon Viangchan

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Guatemala San Salvador

Managua San Jose Panama Caracas Port of Spain

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Bogota Rmire

Freetown Monrovia Abidjan Accra

Porto Novo
Lome

Quito
Manaus

Libreville Kigali Bujumbura

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Nairobi

Brassaville Kinshasa

Jakarta Dar es Salaam Recife Luanda Port Moresby Lima Lilongwe La Paz Braslia Lusaka Harare Belo Horizonte Windhoek So Paulo Asuncion Rio De Janeiro Gaborone Pretoria Maputo Mbabane Antananarivo

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Maseru

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Perth

30
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Cape Town

Sydney Canberra Melbourne

Montevideo

Robinson Projection Scale: 1:35,000,000 At The Equator

Wellington

PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (m/s ) 10% PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE IN 50 YEARS, 475-year return period

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1.6 MODERATE HAZARD

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3.2 HIGH HAZARD

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4.8 VERY HIGH HAZARD

HAZARD

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All Kirby buildings must be designed to resist the minimum seismic base shear force in accordance with the spectral acceleration Ss and S1 as shown in the table. When the soil condition is unknown, the soil shall be categorized as Class D

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Ss S1

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33 49 16 24 VIa VII 50 69 35 46

65 98 130 163 196 228 33 49 65 82 98 114 VIII IX

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Mercalli

Ss and S1 represent the mapped maximum considered earthquake, 5% damped, spectral response acceleration at periods of 0.2 and 1 sec as defined in the ASCE 7-05, section 9.4.1.2. Ss and S1 will be factored by Fa and Fv respectively according >X to the soil category specified by the customer.

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SMs(D)%g 33 SM1(D)%g 24

83 108 130 163 196 228 SMs(D) and SM1(D) represent the modified value of Ss and S1 according to soil 57 74 98 122 147 171 category class D.