S11B:
Macroseismic Data: Challenges, Opportunties, and Insights Posters

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Session ID#: 12956

Session Description:
Although earthquake intensity data were largely supplanted by the advent of instrumental seismology, the development of Web- and Smart-Phone-based systems to collect and interpret unprecedented volumes of intensity data generates opportunities to explore the distribution of ground motions with far better spatial sampling than would be possible with even low-cost instrumentation.  Earthquakes such as the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake, moreover demonstrate the critical importance of uniformly interpreted traditional intensity data sets in places where instrumental coverage is limited and Web-based intensity tools have limitations.  This session will focus on key aspects of macroseismic data, including recently developed tools to collect, visualize, and analyze intensity data; interpretation of intensity data in terms of quantitative ground motion measures; and case studies demonstrating the use of macroseismic data in well- as well as poorly-instrumented regions to contribute to our understanding of seismotectonics, fundamental earthquake processes, and seismic hazard.
Primary Convener:  Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Remy Bossu, CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France, Stacey Servito Martin, Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Koen Van Noten, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium
Chairs:  Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Koen Van Noten, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium
OSPA Liaison:  Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, and Natural Hazards

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

4344 Microzonation and macrozonation [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing earthquake hazard map performance with historical shaking intensity data (Invited) (118250)
Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States, Edward Max Brooks, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Bruce D. Spencer, Northwestern University, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, United States, Kris Vanneste, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium, Thierry Camelbeeck, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Seismology-Gravimetry, Brussels, Belgium, Bart Vleminckx, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium and Antonella Peresan, Seismological Research Center (CRS) - National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Udine, Italy
ShakeMap fed by macroseismic data in France: feedbacks and contribution for improving SHA. (Invited) (145183)
Antoine Schlupp, EOST École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, UMR7516, Strasbourg Cedex, France; BCSF Bureau Central Sismologique Francais, Strasbourg, France
Issues in testing the new national seismic hazard model for Italy (155598)
Antonella Peresan, Seismological Research Center (CRS) - National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Udine, Italy, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, Vladimir G Kossobokov, Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Edward Max Brooks, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States and Bruce D. Spencer, Northwestern University, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, United States
Dynamic evaluation of seismic hazard and risks based on the Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes (159826)
Anastasia Nekrasova, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia and Vladimir G Kossobokov, Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A Bayesian framework for estimating moment magnitude and its uncertainty from macroseismic intensity measures (176563)
Emily Kawabata, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Ian Graham Main, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Mark Naylor, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Richard E. Chandler, University College London, Dept. of Statistical Science, London, United Kingdom
Assessing Earthquake Hazard Map Performance Using Historical Shaking Intensity Data and Instrumental Data (180917)
Edward Max Brooks, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States and Bruce D. Spencer, Northwestern University, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, United States
How well should probabilistic seismic hazard maps work? (120086)
Kris Vanneste1, Seth Stein2, Thierry Camelbeeck3 and Bart Vleminckx1, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (3)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Seismology-Gravimetry, Brussels, Belgium
Advances and Limitations of Modern Macroseismic Data Gathering (140009)
David J Wald1, James W Dewey1 and Vincent Paul R Quitoriano2, (1)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Transfrontier Macroseismic Data Exchange in Europe: Intensity Assessment of M>4 Earthquakes by a Grid Cell Approach (134398)
Koen Van Noten1, Thomas Lecocq2, Christophe Sira3, Klaus Guenter Hinzen4 and Thierry Camelbeeck1, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Seismology-Gravimetry, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (3)Le Bureau Central Sismologique Français, Strasbourg, France, (4)Erdbebenstation Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
The Near-Source Intensity Distribution for the August 24, 2014, South Napa Earthquake (132248)
John Boatwright, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Alexandra Pickering, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and J Luke Blair, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States
Analysis of the ground motions from the MW 7.8 Gorkha and MW 7.3 Dolakha earthquakes in Nepal in 2015 (132383)
Stacey Servito Martin, Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Susan Elizabeth Hough, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Vineet Kumar Gahalaut, National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Delhi, India, Anand Joshi, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India, Matthieu Landes, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France; CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France and Remy Bossu, CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France
The Long-term Impacts of Earthquakes on Economic Growth (124217)
Stephanie Lackner, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

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