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Estimated counts (in thousands) of population exposure a at various Modi...

Estimated counts (in thousands) of population exposure a at various Modi...

Published: 01 February 2020
97,364 52,632 34,761  2018 267,586 183,411 106,368 57,520 38,481 PE: probability of exceedance. a Population counts are estimates based on LandScan data sets for the conterminous United States and are rounded up to the nearest 1000. The total population counts for the conterminous
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Map showing the population exposure (population counts per ~1 sq : km : fr...

Map showing the population exposure (population counts per ~1 sq : km : fr...

Published: 01 December 2015
Figure 3. Map showing the population exposure (population counts per ~1 sq : km : from the 2013 LandScan database) overlaid on top of the 2014 probabilistic seismic hazard map in terms of MMI for 2% PE in 50 years.
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Earthquake Shaking Hazard Estimates and Exposure Changes in the Conterminous United States

Kishor S. Jaiswal, M.EERI, Mark D. Petersen, M.EERI, Ken Rukstales, William S. Leith
Published: 01 December 2015
Earthquake Spectra (2015) 31 (1_suppl): S201–S220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1193/111814EQS195M
...Figure 3. Map showing the population exposure (population counts per ~1 sq : km : from the 2013 LandScan database) overlaid on top of the 2014 probabilistic seismic hazard map in terms of MMI for 2% PE in 50 years. ...
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▴ PAGER-CAT fatal earthquakes for the Asia-Pacific region with respect to t...

▴ PAGER-CAT fatal earthquakes for the Asia-Pacific region with respect to t...

Published: 01 January 2009
Figure 2. ▴ PAGER-CAT fatal earthquakes for the Asia-Pacific region with respect to the LandScan 2005 population distribution database ( e.g. , Dobson et al. 2000 ). Deadly earthquakes are sized relative to the total number of fatalities and overlay the epicenters for the entire catalog.
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Seismic Hazard, Risk, and Design for South America

Mark D. Petersen, Stephen C. Harmsen, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Kenneth S. Rukstales, Nicolas Luco, Kathleen M. Haller, Charles S. Mueller, Allison M. Shumway
Published: 16 January 2018
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (2): 781–800.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170002
.... Risk is computed by incorporating the new hazard values amplified by soil, PAGER fragility/vulnerability equations, and LandScan 2012 estimates of population exposure. We also calculate building design values using the guidelines established in the building code provisions. Resulting hazard...
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Seismic‐Hazard Forecast for 2016 Including Induced and Natural Earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States

Mark D. Petersen, Charles S. Mueller, Morgan P. Moschetti, Susan M. Hoover, Andrea L. Llenos, William L. Ellsworth, Andrew J. Michael, Justin L. Rubinstein, Arthur F. McGarr, Kenneth S. Rukstales
Published: 31 August 2016
Seismological Research Letters (2016) 87 (6): 1327–1341.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220160072
... are much lower (by about half or more) for exceeding MMI VII or VIII. Hazard is 3‐ to 10‐fold higher near some areas of active‐induced earthquakes than in the 2014 USGS National Seismic Hazard Model ( NSHM ), which did not consider induced earthquakes. This study in conjunction with the LandScan TM...
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Estimating Economic Losses from Earthquakes Using an Empirical Approach

Kishor Jaiswal, M. EERI, David J. Wald, M. EERI
Published: 01 February 2013
Earthquake Spectra (2013) 29 (1): 309–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1193/1.4000104
... worldwide. The requisite model inputs are shaking intensity estimates made by the ShakeMap system, the spatial distribution of population available from the LandScan database, modern and historic country or sub-country population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data, and economic loss data from Munich Re's...
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Map showing the chance of minor damaging earthquake shaking in 100 years fr...

Map showing the chance of minor damaging earthquake shaking in 100 years fr...

Published: 01 February 2020
values ( Wald and Allen, 2007 ). Population density (from LandScan with 1 km × 1 km resolution Dobson et al., 2000 ) is superimposed on the map.
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A Composite Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes for Mainland China

Yilong Li, Zhenguo Zhang, Danhua Xin
Published: 28 July 2021
Seismological Research Letters (2021) 92 (6): 3767–3777.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210090
... of the population exposure database is mainly based on two databases: the intensity map database developed in this study for the MCCDE‐CAT and the spatial population distribution database provided by LandScan (see Data and Resources ). The intensity map database provides the spatial distribution of the intensity...
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The ratio of new visitors (see caption of Fig.  2 for details) on the EMS...

The ratio of new visitors (see caption of Fig.  2 for details) on the EMS...

Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 6. The ratio of new visitors (see caption of Fig.  2 for details) on the EMSC Website to the number of inhabitants in three different macroseismic intensity ranges. The number of inhabitants is estimated from the LandScan database. In order to take into account the seismic‐wave
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Map of the Rose Canyon fault zone (RCFZ) through San Diego (SD), California...

Map of the Rose Canyon fault zone (RCFZ) through San Diego (SD), California...

Published: 16 October 2019
Figure 2. Map of the Rose Canyon fault zone (RCFZ) through San Diego (SD), California (USA) and across the San Diego Bay pull-apart basin. Black box shows the extent of Figure 3 . Grid shows population count per grid cell (∼1 km 2 ) (source: LandScan 2017, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT
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(a) Topographic map of Taiwan with elevation in meters. Circles indicate t...

(a) Topographic map of Taiwan with elevation in meters. Circles indicate t...

Published: 01 October 2007
from topographic slope. (d) Population density map of Taiwan derived from the LandScan 2005 population database ( e.g., Dobson et al. , 2000 ; Bhaduri et al. , 2002 ). See Figure 1 for topography and V S 30 legends.
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OnePAGER summary of the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Respons...

OnePAGER summary of the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Respons...

Published: 11 December 2019
) and the fatality alert (green). The map summarizes the shaking with contours, and gives the LandScan ( Dobson et al. , 2003 ) population density, which is a visual summary of the information that the loss calculations are based on. Additional details about the PAGER loss estimates are given by Wald et al
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The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview of model and implications

Mark D. Petersen, M.EERI, Allison M. Shumway, Peter M. Powers, M.EERI, Charles S. Mueller, Morgan P. Moschetti, M.EERI, Arthur D. Frankel, M.EERI, Sanaz Rezaeian, Daniel E. McNamara, Nico Luco, M.EERI, Oliver S. Boyd, M.EERI, Kenneth S. Rukstales, Kishor S. Jaiswal, M.EERI, Eric M. Thompson, Susan M. Hoover, Brandon S. Clayton, Edward H. Field, M.EERI, Yuehua Zeng
Published: 01 February 2020
Earthquake Spectra (2020) 36 (1): 5–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293019878199
... 97,364 52,632 34,761  2018 267,586 183,411 106,368 57,520 38,481 PE: probability of exceedance. a Population counts are estimates based on LandScan data sets for the conterminous United States and are rounded up to the nearest 1000. The total population counts for the conterminous...
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▴ Versions 1 (A), 2(B), 5(C), and 12 (D; current at time of publication) of...

▴ Versions 1 (A), 2(B), 5(C), and 12 (D; current at time of publication) of...

Published: 01 July 2011
Figure 2. ▴ Versions 1 (A), 2(B), 5(C), and 12 (D; current at time of publication) of the USGS PAGER report for the Tohoku earthquake. Each panel shows the population (from LandScan 2008, Oakridge National Laboratory) exposed to each level of shaking estimated by the USGS ShakeMap. The gray
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Rapid Characterization of the 2015 M w 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Sequence and Its Seismotectonic Context

Gavin P. Hayes, Richard W. Briggs, William D. Barnhart, William L. Yeck, Daniel E. McNamara, David J. Wald, Jennifer L. Nealy, Harley M. Benz, Ryan D. Gold, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Kristin Marano, Paul S. Earle, Mike G. Hearne, Greg M. Smoczyk, Lisa A. Wald, Sergey V. Samsonov
Published: 01 November 2015
Seismological Research Letters (2015) 86 (6): 1557–1567.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220150145
... interpreted beyond the ends of the mapped surface trace of Sapkota et al. (2013) , which is shown as a solid red line. The background image in (a)–(c) shows population density, from the LandScan population database ( Bhaduri et al. , 2002 ; see Data and Resources ). Three main models are shown...
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Source regions of the 2015 (this study, black polygon) and 1934 earthquake ...

Source regions of the 2015 (this study, black polygon) and 1934 earthquake ...

Published: 01 November 2015
the ends of the mapped surface trace of Sapkota et al. (2013) , which is shown as a solid red line. The background image in (a)–(c) shows population density, from the LandScan population database ( Bhaduri et al. , 2002 ; see Data and Resources ). Three main models are shown: (a)  Kumar et al. (2006
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Characterizing uncertainty of general building stock exposure data

Charles K Huyck, M.EERI, Zhenghui “Z” Hu, Michael Eguchi, M.EERI, Georgiana Esquivias, Paul Amyx, Kay Smith, Colm Jordan
Published: 01 August 2022
Earthquake Spectra (2022) 38 (3): 2008–2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930221079852
... data, such as: (1) Global Urban Footprint ( Esch et al., 2011 , 2017 , 2018 ; GUF German Aerospace Center [DLR], 2016 ), (2) Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL; European Commission, 2019 ), (3) LandScan ( Bright et al., 2016 ), and (4) WorldPop ( Tatem, 2017 ). Additional advances include (1...
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PAGER-CAT: A Composite Earthquake Catalog for Calibrating Global Fatality Models

Trevor I. Allen, Kristin D. Marano, Paul S. Earle, David J. Wald
Published: 01 January 2009
Seismological Research Letters (2009) 80 (1): 57–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.80.1.57
...Figure 2. ▴ PAGER-CAT fatal earthquakes for the Asia-Pacific region with respect to the LandScan 2005 population distribution database ( e.g. , Dobson et al. 2000 ). Deadly earthquakes are sized relative to the total number of fatalities and overlay the epicenters for the entire catalog. ...
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Topographic Slope as a Proxy for Seismic Site Conditions and Amplification

David J. Wald, Trevor I. Allen
Published: 01 October 2007
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2007) 97 (5): 1379–1395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120060267
... from topographic slope. (d) Population density map of Taiwan derived from the LandScan 2005 population database ( e.g., Dobson et al. , 2000 ; Bhaduri et al. , 2002 ). See Figure 1 for topography and V S 30 legends. ...
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