An estimation of the Maximum Credible Earthquake from the seismicity of the region and Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program considerations, and

four seismotectonic parameters abstracted from near field weak-motion data recorded at five stations installed in Chamoli District of the Garhwal region in the aftermath of the 1999 Chamoli earthquake. The latter include:

The frequency dependent power law for the shear wave quality factor, $Q_S$,

the site amplification at each station using horizontal-to-vertical-spectral ratio and generalized inversion technique,

source parameters of various events recorded by the array and application of the resulting relations between the scalar seismic moment $M_0$ (dyne-cm) and moment magnitude Mw and the corner frequency, $f_c$ (Hz) and moment magnitude $M_w$ to simulate spectral acceleration due to higher magnitude events corresponding to the estimated Maximum Credible Earthquake, and

regional and site specific local spectral attenuation relations at different geometrically central frequencies in the low, moderate and high frequency bands.