New national seismic zoning map of China

1 Background of the new national seismic zoning map The policy of seismic disaster mitigation in the Chinese mainland is prevention first. According to the law, the earthquake design for ordinary structures must fit the demand of national seismic zoning map. Seismic zoning map is the basis of the earthquake design (TANG, 1998; WU, et al, 1998). The seismic zoning map must be updated with the progress in methodology and accumula-tion of the data. There are three generations of national seis…

New national seismic zoning map of China

A new set of seismic zoning maps were published in August 1,200l. It includes two maps, one is the seismic zon-ing map of peak acceleration, and the other is the zoning map of the characteristic period of the response spectrum.The exceeding probability of the map is 10% within 50 years. The scale of the map is 1:4 000 000. These mapsserve as the national standard. The background of this project, technical approach and key scientific measures, thebasic feature and the application of the maps are introduced in this paper.