Regional-Scale Geohazards Evaluation for Risk Assessment of Natural Gas Storage and Transmission Infrastructure

Abstract

Within the State of California, an extensive infrastructure of storage facilities and transmission pipelines provides natural gas to residential and commercial customers. A project funded by the California Energy Commission is developing a tool to evaluate the risk of this infrastructure system to earthquake hazards. This tool will have modules that characterize various hazards, infrastructure component fragilities, and system level risk.

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