The potential for earthquakes along the plate boundaries has been mapped with reasonable success. Our attention should now focus on the threat posed by unanticipated quakes located in the continental interiors.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Improving urban seismic risk estimates for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, through incorporating recently gained geological knowledge of hazards
Natural Hazards Open Access 21 November 2022
-
A Global Analysis of the Relationship Between Urbanization and Fatalities in Earthquake-Prone Areas
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science Open Access 21 December 2021
-
Scenario ensemble modelling of possible future earthquake impacts in Bhutan
Natural Hazards Open Access 30 June 2020
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$259.00 per year
only $21.58 per issue
Rent or buy this article
Prices vary by article type
from$1.95
to$39.95
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Geller, R. J. Nature 472, 407–409 (2011).
Molnar, P. Nature 335, 131–137 (1988).
Liu, M., Stein, S. & Wang, H. Lithosphere 3, 128–132 (2011).
Wells, D. & Coppersmith, K. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 84, 974–1002 (1994).
Jackson, J. A. J. Earthquake Eng. 5, 5–123 (2001).
Tucker, B. E. Seismol. Res. Lett. 75, 695–700 (2004).
Bilham, R. Bull. Earthquake Eng. 7, 839–887 (2009).
United Nations & World Bank Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention (World Bank, 2010).
Ambraseys, N. & Melville, C. A History of Persian Earthquakes (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982).
Ambraseys, N., Melville, C. & Adams, R. D. The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994).
Ambraseys, N. N. The Long-term Seismicity of the Eastern Mediterranean (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007).
Jackson, J. in Survival (ed. Shuckburgh, E.) 123–145 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).
USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project. Available at http://urbanearth.usgs.gov/scenario08.
National Geophysical Data Center The Significant Earthquake Database. Available via http://go.nature.com/BBJ6Cf.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
England, P., Jackson, J. Uncharted seismic risk. Nature Geosci 4, 348–349 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1168
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1168
This article is cited by
-
Improving urban seismic risk estimates for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, through incorporating recently gained geological knowledge of hazards
Natural Hazards (2023)
-
Intraplate seismicity and earthquake hazard in the Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt, India
Journal of Earth System Science (2022)
-
A multidisciplinary approach to characterization of the mature northern Yangsan fault in Korea and its active faulting
Marine Geophysical Research (2022)
-
The metamorphic and magmatic record of collisional orogens
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2021)
-
Computation of area-characteristic seismicity parameters in Ghana, Nigeria, and immediate neighbors
Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2021)