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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Yakutsk
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Stockholm Tallinn

Riga
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Manchester Minsk
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London Berlin
Bruxelles Kiev
Frankfurt Praha
Vancouver
Paris va
München Wien Bratisla
Seattle Ulaanbaatar
Budapest
Bern Ljubljana Kishinev
Montreal Zagreb Harbin
Ottawa Milano
Beograd
Toronto Bucuresti
Sarajevo Almaty Urümqi
Detroit Sofiya
Boston Titograd T'Bilisi t Bishkek Shenyang Vladivostok
Chicago
Roma Skopje Tashken
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
hq Osaka
as Käbol Yokohama
Los Angeles Rabat Bayrüt Dim
Tel Avi Baghdad
Dallas Taräbulus v-Yafo ad
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Wuhan
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Cairo
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Thimphu
Miami
Doha Taipei
Ar Riyad Karachi
La Habana Dh abi Masqat Dhaka Guangzhou
Abu Calcutta
Hanoi
Hong Kong

Mexico City Port-au-Prince Bombay

San Juan
San Nouakchott
Belmopan Kingston to D Viangchan
om Hyderabad Yangon
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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

Porto Novo
Panama Caracas Ho Chi Minh City
San Jose Conakry
wn Freetown Ädïs Äbeba
Ge orgeto Colombo
Paramaribo Monrovia Accra Lagos
Abidjan

Lome
Bandar Seri Begawan
Rémire
Bogota Bangui
Malabo
Yaoundé Kuala Lumpur
Muqdisho
Kampala Singapore
0° Quito Libreville
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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
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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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