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Development of the Global Earthquake Model’s neotectonic fault database

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2015-10-14

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Article

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15730840
0921030X

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10.1007/s11069-015-1831-6

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2-s2.0-84941424765

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Mahidol University

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Natural Hazards. Vol.79, No.1 (2015), 111-135

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Annemarie Christophersen, Nicola Litchfield, Kelvin Berryman, Richard Thomas, Roberto Basili, Laura Wallace, William Ries, Gavin P. Hayes, Kathleen M. Haller, Toshikazu Yoshioka, Richard D. Koehler, Dan Clark, Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, Margaret S. Boettcher, Pilar Villamor, Nick Horspool, Teraphan Ornthammarath, Ramon Zuñiga, Robert M. Langridge, Mark W. Stirling, Tatiana Goded, Carlos Costa, Robert Yeats Development of the Global Earthquake Model’s neotectonic fault database. Natural Hazards. Vol.79, No.1 (2015), 111-135. doi:10.1007/s11069-015-1831-6 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/35881

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Development of the Global Earthquake Model’s neotectonic fault database

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Annemarie Christophersen
 Nicola Litchfield
 Kelvin Berryman
 Richard Thomas
 Roberto Basili
 Laura Wallace
 William Ries
 Gavin P. Hayes
 Kathleen M. Haller
 Toshikazu Yoshioka
 Richard D. Koehler
 Dan Clark
 Monica Wolfson-Schwehr
 Margaret S. Boettcher
 Pilar Villamor
 Nick Horspool
 Teraphan Ornthammarath
 Ramon Zuñiga
 Robert M. Langridge
 Mark W. Stirling
 Tatiana Goded
 Carlos Costa
 Robert Yeats

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GNS Science
 Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia, Rome
 University of Texas at Austin
 United States Geological Survey Central Region
 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
 State of Alaska
 Geoscience Australia
 University of New Hampshire Durham
 Mahidol University
 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
 Universidad Nacional de San Luis
 Oregon State University

Abstract

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to develop uniform, openly available, standards, datasets and tools for worldwide seismic risk assessment through global collaboration, transparent communication and adapting state-of-the-art science. GEM Faulted Earth (GFE) is one of GEM’s global hazard module projects. This paper describes GFE’s development of a modern neotectonic fault database and a unique graphical interface for the compilation of new fault data. A key design principle is that of an electronic field notebook for capturing observations a geologist would make about a fault. The database is designed to accommodate abundant as well as sparse fault observations. It features two layers, one for capturing neotectonic faults and fold observations, and the other to calculate potential earthquake fault sources from the observations. In order to test the flexibility of the database structure and to start a global compilation, five preexisting databases have been uploaded to the first layer and two to the second. In addition, the GFE project has characterised the world’s approximately 55,000 km of subduction interfaces in a globally consistent manner as a basis for generating earthquake event sets for inclusion in earthquake hazard and risk modelling. Following the subduction interface fault schema and including the trace attributes of the GFE database schema, the 2500-km-long frontal thrust fault system of the Himalaya has also been characterised. We propose the database structure to be used widely, so that neotectonic fault data can make a more complete and beneficial contribution to seismic hazard and risk characterisation globally.

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Earth and Planetary Sciences
 Environmental Science

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