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Seismic hazard computations for regions with low earthquake activity — A case study for the Belgium, The Netherlands and NW Germany area

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The algorithms to evaluate seismic hazard, used and/or developed by five teams participating in the TERESA project, applied to the low seismicity area ‘Belgium, The Netherlands and NW Germany’ are compared. The main differences in the results can be explained by the majority criterion of Egozcue et al. (1989), the differences in the upper bound and zonification and, in some cases, by a higher attenuation.

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  1. Division of Seismology, KNMI, PO Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, The Netherlands

    Theo de Crook

  2. Geophysical Institute, Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, 14131, Prague 4, Spořilov, Czechoslovakia

    Vladimír Schenk

  3. Inst. of Earth's Sciences, University of Udine, Italy

    M. S. Barbano

  4. Inst. for Geophysics of the Lithosphere, CNR, Milan, Italy

    F. Colombo & G. Zonno

  5. ETSICCP, Politechnical Univ. of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    J. J. Egozcue

  6. Inst. of Geophysics, Fed. Inst. Techn., ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

    M. García-Fernández

  7. Geophys. Inst., Czechosl. Acad. Sci., Prague, Czechoslovakia

    P. Kottnauer, F. Mantlík & Z. Schenková

  8. Bundesanst. f. Geowissensch. und Rohstoffe, Hanover, F.R.G.

    G. Leydecker

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de Crook, T., Schenk, V., Barbano, M.S. et al. Seismic hazard computations for regions with low earthquake activity — A case study for the Belgium, The Netherlands and NW Germany area. Nat Hazards 2, 229–236 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127314

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