Over more than a century of systematic observational seismology, the instrumental capabilities to detect, record, and analyze elastic waves other physical variables associated with source, medium, recording site earthquakes have evolved substantially [...]

Abstract This chapter deals with all the precious documented recently published and unpublished studies that address seismic situation earthquakes in State of Kuwait. Kuwait is geographically geologically situated northeastern part Arabian Peninsula. In addition to being close famous Zagros belt earthquakes, local sources inside make it always vulnerable earthquakes. We will review instrumental...

Seismic hazard and risk are fundamentally different concepts. Seismic hazard describes phenomena generated by earthquakes that have potential to cause harm, but seismic risk is the likelihood (chance) of experiencing a specified level of seismic hazard in a given time exposure. Seismic hazard occurs naturally and can be evaluated from instrumental, historical, and geological observations. Seism...

the gutenberg–richter parameters (a and b), fractal dimension (dc), and relationships between these parameters are calculated for different regions of the north of central-east iran blocks (nceib). the whole examined area (between 34°-36° n and 55°-61° e) is divided into 55 equal square grids. both the a and b values for the frequency-magnitude distribution (fmd) and the fractal dimension (dc) ...

How earthquakes initiate is still a largely debated question in earthquake science. On the lab scale, rupture initiation well studied, and detailed models of how nucleation evolves have been developed. Contrarily, for real earthquakes, only few high-resolution observations this process are available today, mostly limited to mainshock magnitudes > M5. Consequently, there no consensus on whether ...

The importance of historical earthquakes is being increasingly recognized. Careful investigations of key pre-instrumental earthquakes can provide critical information and insights for not only seismic hazard assessment but also for earthquake science. In recent years, with the explosive growth in computational sophistication in Earth sciences, researchers have developed increasingly sophisticat...

A comprehensive, consistently interpreted new catalog of felt intensities for India (Martin and Szeliga, 2010, this issue) includes intensities for 570 earthquakes; instrumental magnitudes and locations are available for 100 of these events. We use the intensity values for 29 of the instrumentally recorded events to develop new intensity versus attenuation relations for the Indian subcontinent ...

based on, historical seismicity, position of 19-century instrumental epicenters, fault zones, relation of seismicity with active faults, and structural geology, statistics of earthquake activites, model studies for estimation of acceleration, and other information of intensities of iranian earthquakes, and for simplicity in the usage, the country is divided into two intensity provinces. in the ...

The Quchan fault is located in Quchan - Shirvan area which is a part of Chenaran- Bojnourd plain in Kopeh-Dagh zone, NE Iran. The Quchan active fault with northwest – southeast trending is one of the most important strike-slip faults in the area which its activity led to the numerous historical and instrumental earthquakes. The Neo-tectonic activities of this fault are investigated by the drain...

The Gutenberg–Richter parameters (a and b), fractal dimension (DC), and relationships between these parameters are calculated for different regions of the North of Central-East Iran Blocks (NCEIB). The whole examined area (between 34°-36° N and 55°-61° E) is divided into 55 equal square grids. Both the a and b values for the frequency-magnitude distribution (FMD) and the fractal dimension (DC) ...