SHAWave

The Netherlands seems so flat. But in the subsurface we see a completely different reality with high mountains and deep valleys. These have a strong influence on the surface effects of shallow earthquakes, like in the gas fields in the north of the Netherlands. This can result in very local, but strong, variations in seismic intensity at the surface. In this research we study these effects and explore how we can use this knowledge to get a better forecast of earthquake hazard for future exploitation projects, like for geothermal.