Tsunami Inundation Modeling To Create 2,500-Year Return Period Tsunami Design Zone Maps for the Asce 7-16 Standards


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A national standard for engineering design for tsunami effects has not existed before and this significant risk is mostly ignored in engineering design. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 7 Tsunami Loads and Effects Subcommittee has completed a chapter for the 2016 edition of ASCE/SEI 7 Standard. Chapter 6, Tsunami Loads and Effects, would become the first national tsunami design provisions. In this paper, we describe the methods, procedures, and results to create the 2,500-year tsunami design zone maps for Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. This ensures the probabilistic criteria are established in the tsunami design maps for their use with the ASCE 7-16 design provisions. These new tsunami design zone maps define the coastal zones where structures of greater importance would be designed for tsunami resistance and community resilience.

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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
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2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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