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RESEARCH ARTICLES Spatial variation of maximum considered and design basis earthquakes in peninsular India Kishor Jaiswal and Ravi Sinha* Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India curring earthquake events, the structure should suffer Realistic seismic hazard assessment is essential for only minor or moderate structural damage. The specifica- carrying out safe and economic design of structures. The zone factors corresponding to seismic hazard in tions given in the design code are not based on detailed different parts of India that has been specified in the assessment of maximum ground acceleration in each zone IS code (IS 1893 : 2002) does not fully consider the recent using deterministic or probabilistic approach. Instead, each advances in understanding of seismic hazard in penin- zone factor represents the effective period peak ground sular India. The recent damaging earthquakes in this accelerations that may be generated during maximum consi- region have indicated that the seismic zonation may dered earthquake ground motion in respective zone. A not be accurate. The MCE-level peak horizontal ac- uniform factor 2 has been used to reduce the maximum celerations may also be underestimated, considering considered earthquake zone factor to the factor for design the damage caused by moderate to large earthquakes basis earthquake 1. It is important to note that the zone fac- in the past. The IS code also assumes a uniform ratio