SE18
Seismic Hazard, Risk and Ground-Shaking Scenarios

Main Organiser
Fabio Romanelli
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Trieste
Via Weiss 4, 34127, Trieste, Italy
romanel@dst.units.it

Co-Organiser(s)
Imtiyaz A. Parvez, CMMACS
parvez@cmmacs.ernet.in

Zhifeng Ding, Institute of Geophysics
ding@cdsn.org.cn

Brief Description
The role of the seismic hazard assessment is of paramount importance for the sustainable development of economies and societies, since it is a fundamental pre-disaster tool for the seismological and engineering community. The input for the seismic risk analysis can be expressed with a description of ground-shaking scenarios or with hazard maps of relevant parameters of the ground motion. The goal of this session is to present a review of the various techniques, based on recent empirical or theoretical approaches, for the seismic hazard (and risk) assessment and for the realistic definition of the seismic input.