Evaluating hazard results for Switzerland and how not to do it : a discussion of "Problems in the application of the SSHAC probability method for assessing earthquake hazards at Swiss nuclear power plants" by J-U Klugel

Musson, R.M.W.; Toro, G.R.; Coppersmith, K.J.; Bommer, J.J.; Deichmann, N.; Bungum, H.; Cotton, F.; Scherbaum, F.; Slejko, D.; Abrahamson, N.A.. 2005 Evaluating hazard results for Switzerland and how not to do it : a discussion of "Problems in the application of the SSHAC probability method for assessing earthquake hazards at Swiss nuclear power plants" by J-U Klugel. Engineering Geology, 82 (1). 43-55. 10.1016/j.enggeo.2005.09.003

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Abstract/Summary

The PEGASOS project was a major international seismic hazard study, one of the largest ever conducted anywhere in the world, to assess seismic hazard at four nuclear power plant sites in Switzerland. Before the report of this project has become publicly available, a paper attacking both methodology and results has appeared. Since the general scientific readership may have difficulty in assessing this attack in the absence of the report being attacked, we supply a response in the present paper. The bulk of the attack, besides some misconceived arguments about the role of uncertainties in seismic hazard analysis, is carried by some exercises that purport to be validation exercises. In practice, they are no such thing; they are merely independent sets of hazard calculations based on varying assumptions and procedures, often rather questionable, which come up with various different answers which have no particular significance.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.enggeo.2005.09.003
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Seismology and Geomagnetism
Date made live:	01 May 2012 13:33 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17932

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1016/j.enggeo.2005.09.003

Programmes:

BGS Programmes > Seismology and Geomagnetism

Date made live:

01 May 2012 13:33 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17932