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GLOBAL SEISMIC HAZARD MAPProduced 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. Zhang1999
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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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