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Seismic Risk Group
Expertise spans:
• Palaeo- and historical seismicity and their impacts• Instrumental monitoring of earthquakes and fault movement
• Seismic hazard computations
• Earthquake geology and field mapping of faults
• Determination of building vulnerability curves
• Earthquake strong motion analysis
• Geotechnical engineering
• Geographic Information Systems
• Risk analysis
• Post-earthquake disaster management
• Decision-tree and financial analysis
What we do
The Seismic Risk Group provides an extensive range of services to the financial market, industry and government, including:• Data reviews and descriptive critiques
• Numerical analysis of seismic hazard, vulnerability and risk
• Loss modelling and decision analysis
• Engineering seismological analysis of earthquake strong motion data and engineered structures
• Field surveys of earthquake-prone terrains
• Crustal deformation and earthquake monitoring
• Post-earthquake management and long-term reconstruction
• Seismic risk perception
Membership includes:
Dr Paul Burton (University of East Anglia at Norwich) Group co-ordinatorDr. William Aspinall (Aspinall & Associates)
Dr Julian Bommer (Imperial College London)
Dr Chris Browitt
Prof Adrian Chandler (University of Hong Kong)
Prof Paul Cross (University College London)
Dr Ian Davis
Dr Bill Murphy (University of Leeds)
Dr Gerald Roberts (Birkbeck College London)
Dr Peter Sammonds (University College London)
Dr Robin Spence (Cambridge University)
Dr Iain Stewart (University of Glasgow)
Dr Gordon Woo (RMS)
Contact
Dr. Paul BurtonThe Seismic Risk Group
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Email: p.burton@uea.ac.uk or r.cullington@uea.ac.uk
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