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<div style="margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Speaker: Molly Gallahue</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Abstract: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA), which forecasts levels of earthquake shaking that should be exceeded with only a
certain probability over a given period of time, is one of the most important products produced by the seismological community for earthquake risk mitigation. Seismologists have recently begun assessing how well PSHA models and corresponding maps forecast
the shaking that actually occurs. Salditch et al. (2020) found that current PSHA maps for California predict higher shaking than that observed by the California Historical Intensity Mapping Project (CHIMP) dataset of maximum observed shaking from the largest
California earthquakes between 1857 and 2019. Qualitatively similar results have been obtained in Italy and Japan. We examine three possible causes for the discrepancy in California: 1) site effects due to variations in VS30 (time-averaged shear-wave velocity
in the top 30m of soil), which could amplify or deamplify ground motions relative to hazard maps for a reference site condition, 2) incompleteness of the CHIMP data set, and 3) aleatory variability in conversion from peak ground acceleration (PGA) to Modified
Mercalli Intensity (MMI). We find that incorporation of site-specific VS30 does not appreciably change maps and hence their inconsistency with CHIMP data, because at the short periods that control PGA (and MMI), nonlinear deamplification due to increased soil
damping largely offsets linear amplification due to low VS30. We show that the other two factors also cannot explain the discrepancy between predicted and observed shaking. We outline future work that will be undertaken to understand the discrepancy. Remaining
possible explanations include but are not limited to two-step regression in ground motion intensity conversion equations, use of mean rather than median hazard to characterize PSHA, and overestimation of aleatory variability in modern ground motion models.
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bio</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">: Molly Gallahue is a 4th year PhD candidate at Northwestern University
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