Table 2  A comparison of this study with the past PSHA studies carried out for Pakistan and surrounding

regions
Study GSHAP (Zhang et al. PMD and NORSAR NESPAK (2007) Zaman et al. (2012) EMME (2014) Current study
1999) (2007)

Year 1992–1999 2007 2007 2012 2014 2019

Methodology PSHA using Cornell PSHA using Cornell PSHA using Cor- National Seismic Haz- Both Cornell (1968); Both Cornell (1968);
(1968) and (McGuire (1968) and (McGuire nell (1968) and ard Maps (NSHM) McGuire (1976) and McGuire (1976) and
1976) approach 1976) approach (McGuire 1976) using USGS Soft- NSHM approaches NSHM methods with
approach ware for PSHA with 60% and 40% 50% probabilistic
probabilistic weights weights assigned to
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each
Source models charac- More than 20 seismic 19 seismic area 17 seismic area Background spatially More than 18 seismic 23 seismic area sources
terization area sources with sources with uniform sources with uni- smoothed-gridded area sources with with background
uniform seismicity seismicity form seismicity seismicity background spatially spatially smoothed-
smoothed-gridded gridded seismicity in
seismicity in two dif- two different source
ferent source models models
Active crustal faults Nil Nil 28 active crustal faults 13 active crustal faults More than 100 active 110 active crustal faults
modeled using modeled, using both faults are modeled, modeled using the
characteristic fault the characteristic and using GR model by GEM (2019) active
model. The slip rate Gutenberg-Richter Anderson and Luco faults catalogue. Both
is not used to esti- (GR) models with (1983) to estimate the characteristic and
mate the earthquake equal weightage to the earthquake GR models by Youngs
recurrence rate estimate the earth- recurrence rate and Coppersmith
quake recurrence (1985) with equal
rate probabilistic weight-
age are used to esti-
mate the earthquake
recurrence rate

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