Topics Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Stress Field

Here you can find an overview of our main research topic. Section 2.6 is involved in studies related to earthquake hazard and risk assessment as well as the observation of the crustal stress field and its numerical modelling. These topics are mainly part of the programme topic "Natural hazards: assessment and risk mitigation".

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment - PSHA
Providing state-of-the-art seismic hazard assessments for the earthquake engineering community is the most important aim of the work within Section 2.6. Within this framework, existing methodologies for seismic hazard assessment are improved and new methods are developed, which are applied to a range of different test areas. In this work, all geoscientific information must be integrated appropriately. This includes, in addition to the results of seismological analyses, also paleoseismological, geodetic and geological data. ...more

Building Codes for an Earthquake Resistant Design
In order to evaluate the effects of earthquakes on society, our section is cooperating closely with earthquake engineers. In this way, our results obtain direct, practical relevance and provide guidelines for the decision makers.  ...more

Earthquake risk assessment towards risk management
The earthquake risk is a measure of the probability of earthquake-caused damages in a region within a given time period (usually decades). The risk evaluations performed by our section are based on intensity-based probabilistic seismic hazard assessments combined with different vulnerability models. ...more

Seismological and Engineering Seismological Basic Research
For the continuous improvement of our seismic hazard analyses, comprehensive basic research is performed focused on seismological and engineering seismological topics. These studies, on one side, provide improvements to the input data such as earthquake catalogues, but also serve the improvement of various models describing the damage potential of earthquakes.   ...more

Observation and Numerical Modelling of the Crustal Stress Field
The contemporary crustal stress field and its changes with time are of key interest to a wide range of practical applications such as reservoir management, stability aspects of underground openings, and seismic hazard assessment. ... more