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GLOBAL SEISMIC HAZARD MAP

Produced by the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP), a demonstration project of the UN/International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction, conducted by the International Lithosphere Program.

Global map assembled by D. Giardini, G. Grünthal, K. Shedlock, and P. Zhang 1999

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PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION 10% PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE IN 50 YEARS, 475-year return period

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Scale: 1:35,000,000 At The EquatorRobinson Projection

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