Earthquake hazard zonation of Sikkim Himalaya using a GIS platform |
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| Authors: | Indrajit Pal Sankar Kumar Nath Khemraj Shukla Dilip Kumar Pal Abhishek Raj K K S Thingbaijam B K Bansal |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721 302, India;(2) Department of Geography and Environment Management, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, West Bengal, 721 102, India;(3) Seismology Division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, 110 016, India |
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| Abstract: | An earthquake hazard zonation map of Sikkim Himalaya is prepared using eight thematic layers namely Geology (GE), Soil Site
Class (SO), Slope (SL), Landslide (LS), Rock Outcrop (RO), Frequency–Wavenumber (F–K) simulated Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA),
Predominant Frequency (PF), and Site Response (SR) at predominant frequencies using Geographic Information System (GIS). This
necessitates a large scale seismicity analysis for seismic source zone classification and estimation of maximum earthquake
magnitude or maximum credible earthquake to be used as a scenario earthquake for a deterministic or quasi-probabilistic seismic
scenario generation. The International Seismological Center (ISC) and Global Centroid Moment Tensor (GCMT) catalogues have
been used in the present analysis. Combining b-value, fractal correlation dimension (Dc) of the epicenters and the underlying tectonic framework, four seismic source zones
are classified in the northeast Indian region. Maximum Earthquake of M
W 8.3 is estimated for the Eastern Himalayan Zone (EHZ) and is used to generate the seismic scenario of the region. The Geohazard
map is obtained through the integration of the geological and geomorphological themes namely GE, SO, SL, LS, and RO following
a pair-wise comparison in an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Detail analysis of SR at all the recording stations by receiver
function technique is performed using 80 significant events recorded by the Sikkim Strong Motion Array (SSMA). The ground
motion synthesis is performed using F–K integration and the corresponding PGA has been estimated using random vibration theory
(RVT). Testing for earthquakes of magnitude greater than M
W 5, a few cases presented here, establishes the efficacy and robustness of the F–K simulation algorithm. The geohazard coverage
is overlaid and sequentially integrated with PGA, PF, and SR vector layers, in order to evolve the ultimate earthquake hazard
microzonation coverage of the territory. Earthquake Hazard Index (EHI) quantitatively classifies the terrain into six hazard
levels, while five classes could be identified following the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) PGA nomenclature for the seismic
zonation of India. EHI is found to vary between 0.15 to 0.83 quantitatively classifying the terrain into six hazard levels
as “Low” corresponding to BIS Zone II, “Moderate” corresponding to BIS Zone III, “Moderately High” belonging to BIS Zone IV,
“High” corresponding to BIS Zone V(A), “Very High” and “Severe” with new BIS zones to Zone V(B) and V(C) respectively. |
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| Keywords: | AHP Maximum earthquake Earthquake hazard GIS Seismicity |
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