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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; August 2008; v. 98; no. 4; p. 1849-1862; DOI: 10.1785/0120070241
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Seismic Design Loads from Site-Specific and Aggregate Hazard Analyses

Praveen K. Malhotra

Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global), 1151 Boston-Providence Turnpike, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062-9102 Praveen.Malhotra{at}FMGlobal.com

A significant limitation of site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (known as PSHA) is usually overlooked. The seismic design loads derived from PSHA can only be expected to control the risk at individual locations (site-specific risk); they cannot be expected to control the risk at multiple locations simultaneously affected by an earthquake (aggregate risk). This article presents a method of calculating the seismic design loads for controlling both the site-specific and the aggregate risks.






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