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24 CHAPTER FOUR SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS As indicated in chapter one, PBSD requires an estimate of the seismic hazard for the site in question. This hazard includes effects of both the regional tectonics and the local site characteristics.
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25 excerpted from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research MCEER/ATC-49 reports (2003)
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26 States, and that the risk of collapse or attainment of other damage levels is not uniform across the county, the ASCE 43-05 Seismic Design Criteria for Structures, Systems, and Components in Nuclear Facilities standard (2005b) presents a method to adjust design spectra to account for the uneven hazard.
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