(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time
“the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling”
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
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