ESHM2020 Overview

The 2020 European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20) provides an update on the earthquake hazard assessment of the Euro-Mediterranean region. ESHM20 has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 730900 of the SERA-Project (www.sera-eu.org). It is the successor version of the 2013 Euro-Mediterranean Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM13). 

Research teams across Europe have developed the ESHM20 in a cooperative effort through a participatory peer-reviewed process, in collaboration with GEM (Global Earthquake Model Foundation) and EPOS (European Plate Observing System).

A fully probabilistic framework was adopted in the hazard model implementation, and all datasets and inputs are fully cross-border harmonised. The scientific data and input models are accessible on the publicly available EFEHR ESHM20 GitLab repository.

Please use the following reference for citing this repository:

Danciu L., Nandan S., Reyes C., Basili R., Weatherill G., Beauval C., Rovida A., Vilanova S., Sesetyan K., Bard P-Y., Cotton F., Wiemer S., Giardini D. (2021) - The 2020 update of the European Seismic Hazard Model: Model Overview, https://doi.org/10.12686/a15, EFEHR Technical Report 001.

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Resources

• Report: Technical report The 2020 update of the European Seismic Hazard Model: Model Overview, https://doi.org/10.12686/a15, EFEHR Technical Report 001.
• Main  input datasets:  ESRI shapefiles containing data that was used to run the ESHM20 model
• OpenQuake input files: configuration files and openquake input nrml (.xml) files used to run the model
• Supplementary materials: supplementary materials, such as plots that visualize various model attributes, as well as comparison plots.

Results and Data access

ESHM20 results are distributed online and publicly accessible via the EFEHR hazard web platform (hazard.efehr.org). The main results are: hazard maps, hazard curves, uniform hazard spectra and disaggregation of ground shaking hazard levels.

The following web services are available for displaying and accessing these results:

• Hazard Maps (OGC WMS endpoint)
• Hazard Curves (RESTful API)
• Uniform Hazard Spectra (RESTful API)