Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis at regional and national scales: State of the art and future challenges

MC Gerstenberger, W Marzocchi, T Allen… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic hazard modeling is a multidisciplinary science that aims to forecast earthquake
occurrence and its resultant ground shaking. Such models consist of a probabilistic …

Hazardous faults of South America; compilation and overview

C Costa, A Alvarado, F Audemard, L Audin… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The heterogeneous South American geology has coined a wide variety of
neotectonic settings where crustal seismogenic sources do occur. This fact has led to …

Continental block motion in the Northern Andes from GPS measurements

P Jarrin, JM Nocquet, F Rolandone… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY Northwestern South America is a plate boundary zone where the Nazca,
Caribbean and South American plates interact to produce a wide area of active continental …

Seismically induced soil liquefaction and geological conditions in the city of Jama due to the M7. 8 Pedernales Earthquake in 2016, NW Ecuador

D Avilés-Campoverde, K Chunga, E Ortiz-Hernández… - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Seismically induced soil liquefaction has been documented after the M7. 8, 2016
Pedernales earthquake. In the city of Jama, the acceleration recorded by soil amplification …

[HTML][HTML] Width of surface rupture zone for thrust earthquakes: implications for earthquake fault zoning

P Boncio, F Liberi, M Caldarella… - Natural Hazards and …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …

[HTML][HTML] Natural hazards and mineral commodity supply: Quantifying risk of earthquake disruption to South American copper supply

E Schnebele, K Jaiswal, N Luco, NT Nassar - Resources Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Mineral resources, and their mining and enrichment operations, are not equally distributed
across Earth. The concentration of mineral supply in certain regions, owing to the geology or …

Ground-motion model for subduction earthquakes in northern South America

CA Arteta, CA Pajaro, V Mercado… - Earthquake …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Subduction ground motions in northern South America are about a factor of 2 smaller than
the ground motions for similar events in other regions. Nevertheless, historical and recent …

Active tectonics and earthquake geology along the Pallatanga fault, central Andes of Ecuador

S Baize, L Audin, A Alvarado, H Jomard… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Based on new geological data and the analysis of a 4 m spatial resolution Digital Elevation
Model (DEM), we provide a detailed and comprehensive description of section of the …

Optimizing Interpolation Methods and Point Distances for Accurate Earthquake Hazard Map**

SH Alavi, A Bahrami, M Mashayekhi, M Zolfaghari - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Earthquake hazard map** assesses and visualizes seismic hazards in a region using
data from specific points. Conducting a seismic hazard analysis for each point is essential …

Assessing susceptibility to soil liquefaction using the standard penetration test (SPT)—a case study from the city of Portoviejo, Coastal Ecuador

E Ortiz-Hernández, K Chunga, JL Pastor, T Toulkeridis - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The city of Portoviejo in coastal Ecuador was severely affected during the 16 April 2016,
Pedernales earthquake (Mw 7.8). Various coseismic liquefaction phenomena occurred …