Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1223-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1223-2024
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05 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 05 Apr 2024

Exploring inferred geomorphological sediment thickness as a new site proxy to predict ground-shaking amplification at regional scale: application to Europe and eastern Türkiye

Karina Loviknes, Fabrice Cotton, and Graeme Weatherill

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Short summary
Earthquake ground shaking can be strongly affected by local geology and is often amplified by soft sediments. In this study, we introduce a global geomorphological model for sediment thickness as a protentional parameter for predicting this site amplification. The results show that including geology and geomorphology in site-amplification predictions adds important value and that global or regional models for sediment thickness from fields beyond engineering seismology are worth considering.
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