METEOR: Nepal seismic hazard map with mean Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) in g for a 10% and 2% probability of exceedence in 50 years.

Published February 4, 2019 | Version 1

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Data Description	Seismic Hazard Map showing mean Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) in g for a 10% and 2% probability of exceedence in 50 years for the country of Nepal.
Data Producer Attribution	GEM Foundation (https://www.globalquakemodel.org/)
Project Attribution	The data was generated by the Global Earthquake Model Goundation (GEM) as part of the Modelling Exposure Through Earth Observation Routines (METEOR): EO-based Exposure, Nepal and Tanzania project, a £2.8m project co-funded through the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) Call 2 as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) from the UK Government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment.
Data Format	ASCII CSV (attibutes: lat,long,PGA-0.1,PGA-0.02)
Data Visualisation	GIS system (import CSV, using lat (Y) and long (X) attributes for display)
Spatial Resolution	0.025 x 0.025 degrees
Geographic Coordinate Reference System	WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
Described in	Stevens, V.L., Shrestha, S.N. & Maharjan, D.K. (2018) Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Nepal. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; 108 (6): 3488–3510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180022
Contact	kmcm@bgs.ac.uk

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Is described by: Journal article: Stevens, V.L., Shrestha, S.N. & Maharjan, D.K. (2018) Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Nepal. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; 108 (6): 3488–3510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180022 (Other)
Is part of: Report: Winson, A.E.G., Crummy, J., Mee, K., Boon, D., Ciurean, R., Dashwood, C., Garcia-Bajo, M., Sampson, C., Silva, V. 2019. METEOR: Hazard footprints for Nepal and Tanzania. Report M6.1/P. British Geological Survey Open File Report, OR/19/066. 126pp. DOI: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534305/ (Other)

United Kingdom Space Agency
Modelling Exposure Through Earth Observation Routines (METEOR): EO-based Exposure, Nepal and Tanzania