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The contribution reviews basic concepts of earthquake hazard assessment for sites of nuclear power plants. Taking into account the delineation of earthquake source regions, intensity-frequency relations, upper intensity thresholdsI max and intensity attenuation curves, we determine the seismic hazard for a site in south Bohemia and calculated the quantities defining the seismic hazard, i.e. return period in years, probability of exceedance for different intensities and different periods of interest. The adopted procedure has some limitations due to the poor definition of seismogenic zones (boundaries,N(I),I max) and lack of strong motion observations in Central Europe.
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Schenková, Z., Schenk, V. & Kárník, V. Seismic hazard estimate for a low seismicity region — Example of Bohemia. PAGEOPH 119, 1077–1092 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878971
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