A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE CORRELATIVITY OF SEISMIC HAZARD BETWEEN BEIJING AREA AND XIONG'AN NEW AREA

Xiong'an New Area is established on April 1, 2017 and some non-capital functions from Beijing would be transferred to this new area. As a political, economic, and cultural center of China, Beijing has a highly dense population, buildings, and transportation. With the rapid development of the urban economy, the population and assets exposed to dangerous areas with M ≥ 7 earthquakes have accumulated in an exponential manner, leading to a continuous surge in seismic risk in Beijing. Studying on the correlativity of seismic hazard between Beijing area and Xiong'an New Area is of great significance to judge whether Xiong'an can play a role in the dispersal of seismic risk of Beijing. Using Monte Carlo method to simulate synthetic earthquake sequences, and for each simulated earthquake, the peak ground acceleration data sets on each site of Beijing and Xiong'an can be calculated through the attenuation relationship. Based on the statistical analysis of the ground motion peak acceleration data sets, this paper holds that the correlativity of the ground motion between Beijing area and Xiong'an New Area is not high; the probability of Beijing and Xiong'an suffering at the same time from an exceeded fortification level of ground motion effect is very low; the probability of Beijing and Xiong'an suffering at the same time from a rare ground motion effect is extremely low. Through defibering population, assets, and setting up a remote backup of earthquake emergency equipment and supplies, Xiong'an New Area can disperse the high seismic risk of Beijing to some extent.