Improving urban seismic risk estimates for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, through incorporating recently gained geological knowledge of hazards

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Amey, Ruth M. J., Elliott, John R., Watson, C. Scott, Walker, Richard, Pagani, Marco, Silva, Vitor, Hussain, Ekbal, Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek E., Baikulov, Sultan, Kyzy, Gulkaiyr Tilek
• مؤلفون آخرون: Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management (ICRM)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2023
• الموضوعات: Science::Geology; Earthquake; Hazard
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164562

Many cities are built on or near active faults, which pose seismic hazard and risk to the urban population. This risk is exacerbated by city expansion, which may obscure signs of active faulting. Here, we estimate the risk to Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan, due to realistic earthquake scenarios based on h...