seismic hazard assessment like many other issues in seismology is a complicated problem, which is due to variety of parameters affecting the occurrence of earthquake. uncertainty, which is a result of vagueness and incompleteness of the data, should be considered in a rationale way. herein, fuzzy set theory is used to take into account the uncertainty existed in the seismic hazard analysis. the...

As ice retreated from southern coastal Maine from 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, the ocean inundated coastal areas where the earth’s crust had been temporarily depressed by the weight of glacial ice. A thick veneer of glacial-marine clay and silt – the Presumpscot Formation – was deposited in coastal Maine lowlands. Due to its fine-grained character, shear waves from seismic events travel slowly t...

Understanding and assessing the spatial extent of liquefaction hazard requires the spatial dependence of geotechnical properties to be taken into account. In this work, novel multiscale random field models will be developed to characterize and quantify spatial variability of geotechnical parameters across scales. Such models will then be integrated with a simplified procedure for the probabilis...

This study compares two different approaches for estimating the probability of earthquake damage to typical residential structures. The first is an empirical approach using intensity-based hazard and insurance claims data from the 1989 ML 5.6 Newcastle earthquake, the most costly in Australian history. The second is an engineering-based approach that defines hazard in terms of spectral accelera...