Conference Agenda

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

85 PAX

Presentations

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 Schmitz^1,3,4,5, Julio J. Hernández², Sabina Zerpa^4,5

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