GLOBAL SEISMIC HAZARD MAP

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

a demonstration project of the UN/International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction, conducted by the International Lithosphere Program.
Global map assembled by D. Giardini, G. Grünthal, K. Shedlock, and P. Zhang
ICSU SED
1999 SED

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IASPEI SSB

Nordvik

UNESCO
Fairbanks
Reykjavík
Yakutsk
Anchorage
Helsinki
60 Oslo
St. Petersburg Okhotsk
60
Stockholm Tallinn

Riga
Edinburgh
Kobenhavn Vilnius Moskva
Omsk Novosibirsk
Manchester Minsk
Dublin
Birmingham Amsterdam Warszawa Irkutsk
London Berlin
Bruxelles Kiev
Frankfurt Praha
Vancouver
Paris a
München Wien Bratislav
Seattle Ulaanbaatar
Budapest
Bern Ljubljana Kishinev
Montreal Zagreb Harbin
Ottawa Milano
Beograd
Toronto Bucuresti
Sarajevo Almaty Urümqi
Detroit Sofiya
Boston Titograd T'Bilisi Bishkek Shenyang Vladivostok
Chicago
Roma Skopje Tashkent
Barcelona Tirane
Salt Lake City New York Napoli Beijing
Madrid Yerevan Baku
Denver Philadelphia Ankara
Washington D.C. Lisboa Dushanbe Tianjin P'yôngyang
Tunis Ashkhabad
San Francisco Algiers Athinai Seoul
Lanzhou Nagoya Tokyo
Nicosia Tehran Pusan
Osaka
Los Angeles ashq Käbol Yokohama
Rabat Bayrüt Dim
Taräbulus Tel Avi Baghdad
Dallas v-Yafo ad
Alexandria Amman ab
m Lahore
Isla Shanghai
30 Houston
Cairo
Wuhan
30
Al Kuwayt Kath
Delhi man
du
Thimphu
Miami
Doha Taipei
Ar Riyad Karachi
La Habana abi Masqat Dhaka Guangzhou
Abu Dh Calcutta
Hanoi
Hong Kong

Mexico City Port-au-Prince Bombay

San Juan
Sant Nouakchott
Belmopan Kingston oD Viangchan
om Hyderabad Yangon
ingo
Khartoum Asmera
Tegucigalpa Dakar y San'ä' Manila
Guatemala
Banjul Niame Krung Thep
San Salvador Bamako Bangalore Madras
Managua Bissau Ouagadougou N'Djamena
Dijbouti Phnom Penh
Port of Spain Ho Chi Minh City

Porto Novo
Panama Caracas Conakry
San Jose
Freetown Ädïs Äbeba
etown
Georg Colombo
Paramaribo Monrovia Accra Lagos
Abidjan

Lome
Bandar Seri Begawan
Rémire
Bogota Bangui
Malabo
Yaoundé Kuala Lumpur
Muqdisho
Kampala Singapore
0 Quito Libreville
0
Nairobi
Kigali
Manaus
Brassaville Bujumbura
Kinshasa
Jakarta
Dar es Salaam
Recife
Luanda
Port Moresby

Lima

Lilongwe

Brasília Lusaka
La Paz
Harare

Belo Horizonte Antananarivo

Windhoek
São Paulo Rio De Janeiro
Asuncion Gaborone
Pretoria
Maputo
esburg Mbabane
Johann

Maseru
30 30
Perth

Santiago Cape Town Sydney

Buenos Aires
Montevideo Canberra
Robinson Projection
Scale: 1:35,000,000 At The Equator Melbourne

Wellington

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PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (m/s )
10% PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE IN 50 YEARS, 475-year return period

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