Alpine-Himalayan Alpide Shallow Earthquakes and the Current and the Future Hazard Assessments
Historically, the Alpine-Himalayan seismic belt has been frequently witnessed some of the most destructive earthquakes. This vast area, more than 15,000 km along from the southern margin of Eurasia, extends from Java and Sumatra to the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas, the mountains of Iran, the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Mediterranean, terminating at the Atlantic Ocean.
The seismotectonic and occurrence sequences of earthquakes in each region on the Alpide belt are significant (Jackson and McKenzie,1984; Gupta,1993) and, due to the unique character of these active regions, deserves further attention from the scientific community. Earthquake-prone countries located along the Alpide major deformation belt include Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy, etc. In last decades, there have been many large earthquake occurrences with magnitude 6 and larger events in the area such as the 2010 Kerman, Iran M6.3; 2012 East Azarbaijan M6.4; 2013 Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran M7.7; 2017 Kermanshah, Iran M7.3; 2011 Van, Turkey M7.2; 2015 Katmandu, Nepal M7.8; and 2015 Badakhshan, Pakistan M7.5 are examples of earthquakes within the Alp-Himalayan region.
The number of disastrous earthquakes in the Alpine areas is high, leading to hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars per year in comparison with similar scale earthquakes in other regions (e.g. the more developed countries). For example, in 2017, a M7.3 earthquake struck northern Iraq, causing more than 200 deaths and 1,900 injuries (Aon Benfield, 2017f). In 2018, an Indonesian earthquake of M6.9, killed 460 and displaced 350,000 people; in 2012, a northwest Iran earthquake caused 250 deaths and injured 2,000; and in 2011 in south-eastern Turkey, an earthquake killed 200 and injured 1,000. Events within the Alp-Himalayan seismic belt show a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental damage, with a potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects (OECD, 2018).
Conveners
Zoya Farajpour, The University of Memphis (zfrjpour@memphis.edu); Shahram Pezeshk, The University of Memphis (spezeshk@memphis.edu); Sinan Akkar, Bogazici University (sinan.akkar@boun.edu.tr); Hadi Ghasemi, Geoscience Australia (hghasemi@gmail.com)
Oral Presentations
| Participant Role | Details | Start Time | Minutes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission | Himalayan Surface Rupture in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal M8.3 Earthquake - Did It or Didn't It, and Does It Matter? | 01:30 PM | 15 | View |
| Submission | Shallow Earthquake Sources in Iran | 01:45 PM | 15 | View |
| Submission | Implementation of New Seismic Hazard Maps into the Building Code Update in Georgia | 02:00 PM | 15 | View |
| Submission | An Empirical Earthquake Ground-Motion Model Based on Truncated Regression: A Case Study in the Middle East | 02:15 PM | 15 | View |
| Submission | Estimation of Vs30 Based on the Japanese KiK-Net P-Wave Seismograms | 02:30 PM | 15 | View |
| Total: | 75 Minute(s) |
Alpine-Himalayan Alpide Shallow Earthquakes and the Current and the Future Hazard Assessments
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