Projects

Over the years the Centre has completed several projects in accordance to partnership mandates and individual commercial projects.  A list of these projects are provided below:

• Probabilistic tsunami risk assessment from incomplete and uncertain historical impact files: the case of the Mediterranean and connected seas.   
• Suitability of geothermal energy in selected areas of South Africa   
• Time-dependent tsunami hazard assessment for Pacific Rim. 
• Assessment of maximal possible anthropogenic origin seismic events in Groningen, the Netherlands gas fields.    
• Development of a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) procedure that takes into account anthropogenic (human-induced) seismic events and natural earthquake events.
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Kareerand Tailings Storage Facility, North-West Province South Africa. 
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Mponeng Tailings Storage Facility, Gauteng, South Africa. 
  Deterministic and Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Moma Tailings Storage Facility, Mozambique. 
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Three Tailings Dams of Mopani Copper Mines, Zambia.
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for a tailings facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for South Africa.
• Specialist opinion on the technical integrity of a tailings report (private client).
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for the Gauteng Province. A joint project with the Council for Geosciences, South Africa.
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Beira Port, Mozambique.
• Preliminary Hail Risk Model for South Africa (continuation of the development of theory).
• Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment from incomplete and uncertain historical catalogues with application to tsunamigenic regions in the Pacific Ocean. 
• Preliminary Hail Risk Model for South Africa.
• Development of methodology and computer codes for Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment.
• Review of the 2014 Orkney Seismic Event: Impact on Socio-economic standing as well as on the Housing of the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP). (In conjunction with UKZN and NWU).
• Development of various earthquake stochastic event sets (catalogues) for South Africa and eastern Africa.
• Assessment of expected damage to most representative buildings in the Johannesburg CBD.
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis In “Towards Assessing the Environmental Quality within the Royal Bafokeng Nation”.
• Model of the Modified Mercalli intensity attenuation accounting for azimuthal dependence. Application to 2015 Orkney seismic event.
• Estimation of Earthquake Hazard Parameters from Incomplete Data Files: Incorporation if Uncertainty of Earthquake-Occurrence Model - Theoretical background. 
• Possible effect of hydraulic fracturing on seismic hazard in South Africa. Water Research Commission Project K5/2149: Development of an interactive vulnerability map and preliminary screening level monitoring protocol to assess the potential environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing. (In conjunction with the UFS).
• Water Research Commission: Development of an Interactive Vulnerability Map and Preliminary Screening Level Monitoring Protocol for Assessing the Potential Environment Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing (UFS and ABNHC). – This is a project with the UFS.
• Operational risk: measurement inefficiencies and extreme loss modelling.
• Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment from incomplete historic catalogues: application in the Mediterranean region
• Site-effect in Terms of Intensity for South Africa.
• Seismic Hazard Assessment for Tsunami-Generating Areas that Potentially Threatens Coastal South Africa.
• Seismic Hazard Parameters and Synthetic Seismic Event Catalogue for Eastern Africa.
• Council for Geoscience: Perform Risk Assessment due to Seismic Activity for Different Types of Building Classes in the Johannesburg CBD.
• New Generation of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk Map for South Africa.
• Assessment of seismic hazard and risk in the eThikwini (Durban) Municipality.
• Risk assessment due to seismic activity for different types of building classes in the Johannesburg CBD.
• Improved Mmax Estimation Methodology.
• Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis based on Largest Tsunami Observations – Theoretical Background.
• Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis for Chile (based on largest earthquakes).
• AngloGold Ashanti: Report on the Area Characteristic Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Six AGA Mines (Individually) as well as for the West Wits and Vaal Area.
• Report on Vulnerability Assessment Methodologies (Phase I).
• Site Effect Assessment for Major Metropolitan Cities in South Africa (Correction Term for the Modified Mercalli Intensity).
• New Generation Synthetic Seismic Event Catalogue for South Africa.
• Area-Characteristic Seismic Hazard for Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Probable Maximum Loss Calculation for Cape Town based on the Milnerton and Tulbagh-Ceres Earthquakes.
• Probable Maximum Loss Calculation for Cape Town.
• Area-Characteristic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Durban CBD.
• Seismic Hazard Analysis for Johannesburg
• Comparison of Seismic Activity of Johannesburg Area during the Period 2000/01/01-2005/06/03 and 2005/07/01-2010/12/31 (Preliminary Results).
• Everest RE: Seismic Risk Assessment for the Cresta Zones in South Africa.
• Ibero Maghreb Seismic Hazard Parameters and Synthetic Catalogue.
• South Africa Earthquake Modelling.
• Seismic Risk Assessment of 100 Largest Dams in South Africa.
• Development of Methodology for Probabilistic Seismic and Risk Assessment based on Compound Distributions.
• Analysis of Peak Ground Acceleration from Largest Earthquakes.
• Attenuation Models for South Africa.