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Seismic Hazard Tools

The tools found below provide seismic hazard values for various applications, standards, and the editions of the National Building Code. It is the responsibility of the designer to determine which seismic hazard tool is applicable.

Determine National Building Code of Canada seismic hazard values for your site

Supporting documentation

2020 edition	2020 National hazard maps Hazard values for very low probabilities (1 in 5000, 1 in 10,000 years) Open Files Open File 8950: Sixth-generation seismic hazard model of Canada: grid values of mean hazard to be used with the 2020 National Building Code of Canada Open File 8924: Sixth Generation seismic hazard model of Canada: final input files used to generate the 2020 National Building Code of Canada seismic hazard values Open File 8629: Trial Sixth Generation seismic-hazard model of Canada: seismic-hazard values for selected localities
2015 edition	2015 National hazard maps Hazard values for very low probabilities (1 in 5000, 1 in 10,000 years) Open Files Open File 7576: Fifth Generation Seismic Hazard Model Input Files as Proposed to Produce Values for the 2015 National Building Code of Canada Open File 7724: Seismic Hazard Earthquake Epicentre File (SHEEF2010) used in the Fifth Generation Seismic Hazard Maps of Canada Open File 7893: Fifth Generation Seismic Hazard Model for Canada: Grid values of mean hazard to be used with the 2015 National Building Code of Canada Open File 8090: Fifth generation seismic hazard model for Canada: crustal, in-slab, and interface hazard values for southwestern Canada
2010 edition	2010 National hazard maps Open Files Open File 6208: Seismic Hazard Earthquake Epicentre File (SHEEF) used in the fourth generation seismic hazard maps of Canada
2005 edition	2005 National hazard maps Open Files Open File 4459: Fourth generation seismic hazard maps of Canada: values for over 650 Canadian localities intended for the 2005 National Building Code of Canada Open File 5813: Fourth generation seismic hazard maps of Canada: Maps and grid values to be used with the 2005 National Building Code of Canada Open File 6208: Seismic Hazard Earthquake Epicentre File (SHEEF) used in the fourth generation seismic hazard maps of Canada
1985 - 1995 editions	1995 National hazard maps Open Files Open File 82-33: New Probabilistic Strong Seismic Ground Motion map of Canada: a Compilation of Earthquake Source Zones, Methods and Results Open File 8294: Third Generation seismic hazard model for Canada: grid values of hazard used with the 1985, 1990, and 1995 National Building Codes of Canada.

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Date modified:: 2019-03-01