GLOBAL SEISMIC HAZARD MAP

ILP

Produced by the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP),

a demonstration project of the UN/International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction, conducted by the International Lithosphere Program.

ING

Global map assembled by D. Giardini, G. Grnthal, K. Shedlock, and P. Zhang

1999

ICSU

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SED

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IASPEI

SSB

Nordvik

UNESCO
Fairbanks
Reykjavk
Yakutsk

Anchorage

Helsinki

Oslo

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Stockholm

Kobenhavn

Manchester
Dublin
Birmingham
London
Vancouver

Denver

Irkutsk
Kiev

va
Bratisla
Wien
Budapest
Kishinev
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Beograd
Bucuresti
Sarajevo
Sofiya
Titograd
Skopje
Roma
Tirane
Napoli

Ulaanbaatar
Harbin

Milano

Boston

New York
Philadelphia
Washington D.C.

Barcelona

Madrid

Urmqi

Almaty
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T'Bilisi

Shenyang

Ashkhabad

Athinai

Seoul
Nicosia

Lanzhou

Tehran

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Los Angeles

Rabat

Pusan

Kbol

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Dim

Bayrt
Tel Avi
v-Yafo
Alexandria

Tarbulus

Dallas

P'yngyang

Tianjin

Dushanbe
Tunis

Algiers

Baghdad

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Cairo

Lahore
Wuhan

Al Kuwayt

Miami

Delhi

Doha

Ar Riyad

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La Habana

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Abu

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Thimphu
Taipei
Dhaka

Masqat

Guangzhou

Calcutta

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Asmera

Khartoum
Dakar
Banjul

Freetown

Ge

Paramaribo

Abidjan

Accra

Phnom Penh
Ho Chi Minh City

ds beba
Colombo

Lagos

Lome

Monrovia

Rmire

Krung Thep

Madras

Dijbouti

Porto Novo

Conakry

Bogota

Manila
Bangalore

N'Djamena

Ouagadougou

Port of Spain

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orgeto

San''

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Niame

Bamako

Bissau
Caracas

Viangchan

Yangon

Hyderabad

Tegucigalpa

Panama

Hong Kong

Nouakchott

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Managua
San Jose

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man

Bombay

San Juan

San

ingo

Guatemala
San Salvador

Tokyo
Yokohama

Shanghai

Kath

Karachi

Hanoi
Port-au-Prince
Kingston

Belmopan

Nagoya
Osaka

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ab

Amman

Houston

Mexico City

Vladivostok

Beijing

Baku

Yerevan

Ankara

Bishkek

Tashken

Lisboa

San Francisco

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Novosibirsk

Mnchen
Bern

Detroit

Omsk

Warszawa

Berlin
Bruxelles
Frankfurt
Praha

Paris

Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto

Chicago

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Okhotsk

Moskva

Vilnius
Minsk

Amsterdam

Seattle

Salt Lake City

St. Petersburg

Tallinn
Riga

Edinburgh

Bandar Seri Begawan

Bangui

Malabo

Kuala Lumpur

Yaound
Muqdisho

Singapore

Kampala

Quito

Libreville

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Nairobi

Kigali
Bujumbura

Manaus

Brassaville
Kinshasa

Jakarta
Dar es Salaam
Recife
Luanda
Port Moresby
Lima
Lilongwe
Lusaka

Braslia

La Paz

Harare
Antananarivo

Belo Horizonte
Windhoek
So Paulo

Rio De Janeiro

Asuncion

Gaborone

Pretoria

esburg

Johann

Maputo
Mbabane

Maseru

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Perth

Santiago

Cape Town

Buenos Aires

Montevideo

Sydney
Canberra

Robinson Projection
Scale: 1:35,000,000 At The Equator

Melbourne

Wellington

PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (m/s )

10% PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE IN 50 YEARS, 475-year return period

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