Dr Roger Musson
Head, Seismic Hazard Archives
Location: Edinburgh
Tel: 0131 6500 205
E-mail Dr Roger Musson
Biography
- 1980 –current : Seismologist with BGS
- 1979 : PhD Edinburgh University
- 1975 : BSc Queens University Belfast
Current projects and collaboration
Skills
- Archival studies
- Programming (FORTRAN, Visual Basic)
- Public speaking
- Seismic hazard analysis
Professional association
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Member of the American Geophysical Union
- Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Member of the Seismological Society of America
Research interests
- Historical seismology
- Macroseismology
- Seismic hazard
Published outputs
- NERC Open Research Archive — Roger Musson
- The Million Death Quake (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Key papers
MUSSON, R M W. 2012. On the nature of logic trees in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment, Earthquake Spectra, Vol 28, 1291-1296.
MUSSON, R M W. 2012. PSHA validated by quasi observational means, Seismological Research Letters, Vol 83, 130-134.
MUSSON, R M W, GRUENTHAL, G, and STUCCHI, M. 2010. The comparison of macroseismic intensity scales. Journal of Seismology, Vol 14, 413-428.
MUSSON, R M W. 2009. Ground motion and probabilistic hazard. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 7, 575-589.
MUSSON, R M W, and SARGEANT, S L. 2007. Eurocode 8 seismic hazard zoning maps for the UK. British Geological Survey Technical Report, CR/07/125.
MUSSON, R M W. 2007. British earthquakes. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 118, 305-337.
MUSSON, R M W. 2005. Intensity attenuation in the UK. Journal of Seismology, Vol. 9, 73-86.
MUSSON, R M W, and CECIC, I. 2002. Macroseismology. 807-822 in International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology. LEE, W H K, KANAMORI, H, JENNINGS, P C, and KISSLINGER, C (editors). 1. (San Diego: Academic Press.)
