Seismic Hazard Assessment for a Wind Farm Offshore England

Offshore wind has become a major contributor to reducing global carbon emissions. This paper presents probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for the Sofia Wind Farm, which is located about 200 km north-east of England in southern North Sea and will be one largest offshore farms world once completed. The source characterization composed two areal models four derived using smoothed gridded seismicity with earthquake catalogue data processed by different techniques. ground motion contains eight selected based on comparisons regional data. main findings are (1) variation across site negligible; (2) controlling that includes 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake; (3) scenarios Mw = 5.0–6.3 R 110–210 km; (4) peak accelerations rock lower than previous studies. These results could help guide future assessments Sea.