Estimation of Seismic Hazard Based on Seismic Potential

of Active Faults: Case Study of the Oran Region (Algeria)

Y. Bouhadad, N. Laouami, A. Nour & A. Slimani

CGS, National Center of Applied Research in Earthquake Engineering,
01 Rue Kaddour Rahim, BP 252, Hussein. Dey, Algiers, Algeria
D. Belhai
USTHB, FSTGAT, University of Algiers, Bab Ezzouar, Al Alia, BP 32 Algiers, Algeria.

The main purpose of this work is to assess seismic hazard on rocks, for the region of Northwest
Algeria, in order to provide engineers and planners a basic tool for seismic risk mitigation. Seismic
sources and their seismological and geological parameters as well as the attenuation of ground shaking
motion models has been analyzed within a probabilistic approach in the framework of the formalism
of a logic tree. The identification of active faults was a very important step in this study. Results are
presented as relationships between values of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and annual frequency of
exceedance.
KEYWORDS: Probabilistic analysis, Active faults, Algeria, Seismic source parameters.