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The Hazard Library: the hazard component of the OQ-engine

The Hazard Library is a library of methods used by the OpenQuake-engine for the calculation of hazard.

The Hazard Library repository is accessible at the following address:
https://github.com/gem/oq-hazardlib

Documentation

IPython notebooks with several application examples of the OQ Hazard Library are available at the the following link https://github.com/GEMScienceTools/notebooks/tree/master/hazardlib

Monelli, D., M. Pagani, G. A. Weatherill, V. Silva, H. Crowley (2012). The hazard component of OpenQuake: The calculation engine of the Global Earthquake Model. In Proceedings of the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon. download
Pagani, M., D. Monelli, G. Weatherill, L. Danciu, H. Crowley, V. Silva, P. Henshaw, L. Butler, M. Nastasi, L. Panzeri, M. Simionato, D. Vigano (2014). OpenQuake-engine: An Open Hazard (and Risk) Software for the Global Earthquake Model. Accepted for publication on Seismological Research Letters.
D. Monelli, M. Pagani, G. Weatherill, L. Danciu, J. Garcia (2014). Modeling Distributed Seismicity for PSHA: Implementation and Insights with the OpenQuake-engine. Accepted for publication on the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.