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South Africa
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Model
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DESCRIPTION
South Africa is part of GEM's Global Earthquake Hazard and Risk Maps released to the public in December 2018. As part of the mosaic, the seismic hazard, exposure and vulnerability models employed in the calculations were either provided by national institutions, or developed within the scope of regional programs, bilateral collaborations, or by GEM. Click View for details.
APPLICATION
Hazard
The seismic hazard model for South Africa (ZAF) was developed by scientists from the Council for Geoscience, South Africa and the Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India. The model is described by Midzi et al. (2019). The seismic source model was developed using a newly updated catalogue and consists of zones of distributed seismicity, while the ground motion logic tree consists of two existing ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) derived for active shallow crust. The model was originally created for the OpenQuake (OQ) engine.
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GeoScience Council
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Model
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Now
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Open By Attribution, Share-Alike and Commercial use provided the by-products are shared under the same conditions as the original license
Licence type
CC BY-SA
Exposure
Exposure data for Admin level 1 for population, commercial, industrial and residential buildings
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GEM
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Model
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Open By Attribution, Share-Alike and Commercial use provided the by-products are shared under the same conditions as the original license
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CC BY-SA
The current model for South Africa does not have specific documentation. For some information about the hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment methods used for South Africa, readers are referred to the following publications:
Vulnerability modelling: Martins L, Silva V (2020). Development of a Fragility and Vulnerability Model for Global Seismic Risk Assessment. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10518-020-00885-1
Loss assessment: Silva V, Amo-Oduro D, Calderon A, Costa C, Dabbeek J, Despotaki V, Martins L, Pagani M, Rao A, Simionato M, Viganò D, Yepes-Estrada C, Acevedo A, Crowley H, Horspool N, Jaiswal K, Journeay M, Pittore M (2019). Development of a Global Seismic Risk Model. Earthquake Spectra, doi.org/10.1177/8755293019899953. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/8755293019899953
Africa Earthquake Risk Model: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/africa-risk-model
Vulnerability
Vulnerability curves for all building classes
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GEM
Product type
Model
Availability
Now
Product restrictions
Open By Attribution, Share-Alike and Commercial use provided the by-products are shared under the same conditions as the original license
Licence type
CC BY-SA
The current model for South Africa does not have specific documentation. For some information about the hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment methods used for South Africa, readers are referred to the following publications:
Vulnerability modelling: Martins L, Silva V (2020). Development of a Fragility and Vulnerability Model for Global Seismic Risk Assessment. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10518-020-00885-1
Loss assessment: Silva V, Amo-Oduro D, Calderon A, Costa C, Dabbeek J, Despotaki V, Martins L, Pagani M, Rao A, Simionato M, Viganò D, Yepes-Estrada C, Acevedo A, Crowley H, Horspool N, Jaiswal K, Journeay M, Pittore M (2019). Development of a Global Seismic Risk Model. Earthquake Spectra, doi.org/10.1177/8755293019899953. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/8755293019899953
Africa Earthquake Risk Model: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/africa-risk-model
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