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Session
07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment
Time:
Monday, 15/Sept/2025:
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Session Chair: Thomas Spies, Clausthal University of Technology (TU Clausthal)
Session Chair: Diethelm Kaiser, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
Session Chair: Christian Brandes, Leibniz Universität Hannover
 Location: ZHG 004

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3:00pm - 3:15pm
Topics: 07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment

The neotectonic activity of northern Central Europe – the current picture

Christian Brandes1, Jutta Winsemann1, Peter Sandersen2, Holger Steffen3, Rebekka Steffen3, Jonas Kley4

1Institut für Erdsystemwissenschaften, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; 2GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, C. F. Møllers Allé 8, Building 1110, 8000 Århus C, Denmark; 3Lantmäteriet, Geodata Division, Gävle, Sweden; 4Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen, Abteilung Strukturgeologie und Geothermik, Göttingen


3:15pm - 3:30pm
Topics: 07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment

Paleoseismic investigations in the Lower Rhine Graben (LRG): Challenges and insights from a densely populated, tectonically active intraplate region

Vanessa Steinritz, Jochen Hürtgen, Klaus Reicherter

Institute of Neotectonics and Natural Hazards, RWTH Aachen University, Germany


3:30pm - 3:45pm
Topics: 07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment

The 1080 AD earthquake between Mainz and Speyer (Upper Rhine Graben, Germany) – archeoseismology allows relocating the epicentre

Miklos Kazmer1, Krzysztof Gaidzik2, Vanessa Steinritz3, Jens Skapski3, Klaus Reicherter3

1Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; 2University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Poland; 3Neotektonik & Georisiken, RWTH University, Aachen


4:00pm - 4:15pm
Topics: 07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment

Seismic microzonation of Carora, Venezuela

Michael Schmitz1,3,4,5, Julio J. Hernández2, Sabina Zerpa4,5

1now at: Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, BGR, Hannover, Germany; 2Consultant in Structural and Earthquake Engineering, Caracas, Venezuela; 3Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research - FUNVISIS, Department of Geophysics, Caracas, Venezuela; 4Central University of Venezuela - UCV, School of Geology, Mines, and Geophysics, Caracas, Venezuela; 5Simón Bolívar University - USB, Department of Earth Sciences, Caracas, Venezuela


4:15pm - 4:30pm
Topics: 07.01 From paleoseismic trenches to seismic building codes and safety analyses for nuclear installations in Germany: progress in seismic hazard assessment

Seismic site characterization of the Wiechert earthquake station in Göttingen

Manuel Hobiger1, Thomas Plenefisch1, Björn Goebel1, Monika Bischoff2, Matthias Napp2, Stefanie Donner1

1Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Erdbebendienst des Bundes, Kernwaffenteststopp, Hannover, Deutschland; 2Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG), Niedersächsischer Erdbebendienst, Hannover, Deutschland