Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
SECED promotes the study and practice of earthquake engineering, dynamics, and vibration issues like blast and impact.
- Date
- 26 November 2025
- Time
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Overview
The British Geological Survey published the 2024 offshore seismic hazard models, together with accompanying maps for the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), updating the previous maps released in 2002.
The work was funded by the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) and was informed at key stages by external experts who reviewed the project’s main components.
These offshore maps provide a robust indication of seismic hazard levels to support the planning and design of offshore structures and carbon capture and storage sites in UK waters, such as the Acorn and HyNet North West areas.
This talk will present an overview of the 2024 offshore seismic hazard model and maps for the UK EEZ and explain how they differ from the 2020 national seismic hazard model and maps.
It will also discuss recent developments in UK probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), which will inform the next-generation national seismic hazard maps, and how these advances could influence the seismic hazard results published by BGS over the past five years
Speakers
Ilaria Mosca
British Geological Society (BGS)
earthquake hazard researcher
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Ilaria Mosca
Ilaria Mosca | Ilaria is a seismic hazard researcher at the British Geological Society (BGS). She holds a Ph.D. in seismology from the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and has been working for BGS since 2013 after a PDRA in seismic tomography in Germany.
Her work is focused on seismic hazard analysis at regional and local scales, including catalogue analysis, simulation of strong ground motions, and assessment of realistic uncertainties for different components of the hazard analysis.
Dr Mosca has worked on numerous scientific and commercially funded seismic hazard projects in the UK and worldwide, and she has been leading the commercial and scientific seismic hazard projects in BGS since 2020. She represents the BGS in the British-Standards-National Committee B/525/8 for Seismic Regions and is an ExeCom member of the European Seismological Committee.
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