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Current French practice for assessing seismic hazard on the sites of nuclear facilities is outlined. The procedure calls for as rich and varied an assortment of actual earthquake recordings as can be procured, including earthquakes in France itself and in nearby countries, recorded by the CEA/lPSN’s own staff. Following the November 8, 1983, Liège earthquake, suitably equipped, temporary recording stations were set up in the epicentral area in order to record its aftershocks. Ground motion time histories and response spectra were computed for several of these, and a quality factor Q was derived from these data for the most superficial sedimentary layers of the area. The values obtained show reasonable agreement with ones found for similar materials in other regions
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Mohammadioun, B., Mohammadioun, G., Bresson, A. (1985). Assessment of Seismic Hazard for NPP Sites in France — Analysis of Several Aftershocks of the November 8, 1983, Liege Earthquake. In: Melchior, P.J. (eds) Seismic Activity in Western Europe. NATO ASI Series, vol 144. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5273-7_28
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