Earthquake Studies

The assessment of earthquake hazards is a common challenge in engineering geology tasks at Ninyo & Moore. Earthquake hazard studies are included in the planning, design, construction, and forensic phases of projects. Ninyo & Moore maintains current research data and analytical techniques to assess faulting and earthquake hazards for our clients including:

• Fault location studies to evaluate the presence of active faulting and fault rupture potential
• Fault trenching and age dating to evaluate fault activity and fault recurrence intervals
• Deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis to evaluate potential earthquake magnitudes and anticipated ground accelerations
• Secondary earthquake hazards including liquefaction, lateral spreading, landsliding, tsunamis and seiches, ground lurching, and dynamic settlement
• Site response spectra analysis
• Uniform Building Code seismic design coefficients