List of international earthquake acceleration coefficients explained

See main article: Earthquake engineering. List of international earthquake acceleration coefficients. A list of earthquake coefficients used in structural design for earthquake engineering^[1] around the world. For example, a coefficient of 0.09 indicates that a building is designed that 0.09457 of its weight can be applied horizontally during an earthquake.

Australia

From Australian Standard 1170.4. Coeffiecients are based on 10% chance exceedence in 50 years.

• Adelaide - 0.10
• Brisbane - 0.06
• Hobart - 0.05
• Melbourne - 0.08
• Perth - 0.09
• Sydney - 0.08

Note: Meckering, Western Australia, has the largest coefficient in Australia of 0.22.

Greece

From ΕAΚ 2003 building code

• Zone 1 = 0.16g (Thrace and most of Northern Greece, Parts of Athens and Parts of Thessaloniki)
• Zone 2 = 0.24g (Parts of Athens and Parts of Thessaloniki)
• Zone 3 = 0.36g (Zakynthos Island, Cephalonia Island)

Other

• Canada uses Spectral acceleration

Notes and References

1. Book: Bozorgnia. Yousef. Bertero. Vitelmo V.. Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering. CRC Press. 2004 . 978-0-8493-1439-1.