Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
A new evaluation of Seismic Hazard for the Central America Region in the frame of the RESIS II Project.
Año:2008
Áreas de investigación
  • Geofísica
Datos
Descripción
A new evaluation of seismic hazard in the Central America region has been carried out, in the frame of the cooperation project RESIS II, financed by the Norway Cooperation Agency (NORAD). Different experts in seismic hazard from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua , El Salvador, Norway and Spain participated in the study, which was aimed at obtaining results suitable for seismic design purposes. The analysis started with an exhaustive revision of the seismic catalogues of each country from which a global catalogue for CA has been configured and homogenised at moment magnitude, Mw. Seismotectonic models proposed for the region were revised and a regional zonation was proposed, taking into account seismotectonic data, seismicity, focal mechanisms, GPS observations and other evidences useful for defining seismic sources. In parallel, attenuation models for subduction and volcanic crustal zones were revised and the more suitable models were calibrated with strong motion data. Taking the previous inputs, the seismic hazard analysis was developed in terms of peak ground acceleration, PGA and spectral accelerations SA (T) for periods of 0.1, 0.5, 1 and 2 s, through the PSHA methodology (Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment). As a result, different hazard maps were obtained for the quoted parameters, together with Uniform Hazard Spectra (UHS) in the main populations of Central America. This is the first study developed at regional scale after the last earthquakes that have occurred in the region and as a result the new generation of maps will be useful in the revision of seismic codes of the area.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
14th Conference Earthquake Engineering
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Pekín (China)
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
9999-99-999-9
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
12/10/2008
Fecha fin congreso
17/10/2008
Desde la página
153
Hasta la página
153
Título de las actas
Conference Proceedings
Esta actividad pertenece a memorias de investigación
Participantes
  • Participante: Conrad Lindholm NORSAR Oslo
  • Participante: Emilio Talavera INETER Managua
  • Participante: Griselda Marroquín SNET El Salvador
  • Participante: Wilfredo Rojas Univresidad de Costa Rica
  • Autor: Maria Belen Benito Oterino UPM
  • Participante: Eduardo Camacho Univerisdad de Panamá
  • Participante: José Jorge Segura Universidad de Honduras
  • Participante: Álvaro Climent ICE Costa Rica
  • Participante: Enrique Molina INSIVUMEH Guatemala
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería Sísmica: Dinámica de Suelos y Estructuras
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía