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Northwestern: Do Earthquake Hazard Maps Predict Higher Shaking Than Actually Occurred?
May 03, 2024
EVANSTON, Illinois, May 3 (TNSres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:

A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings.

Although seismologists have been making these maps for about 50 years, they know very little about how well they actually forecast shaking, because large damaging earthquakes are infrequent in any a . . .

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