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Would RC wide-beam buildings in Spain have survived Lorca earthquake (11-05-2011)? [PDF]

, 2016
Lorca earthquake (11-05-2011) is most destructive event recorded in Spain, causing nine fatalities and other severe consequences. Its important intensity was rather unexpected, and serious concern arose regarding risk of building stock in Spain.
Benavent Climent, Amadeo, Dominguez, D, López Almansa, Francisco   +2 more
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Natural Time, Nowcasting and the Physics of Earthquakes: Estimation of Seismic Risk to Global Megacities

, 2017
This paper describes the use of the idea of natural time to propose a new method for characterizing the seismic risk to the world's major cities at risk of earthquakes. Rather than focus on forecasting, which is the computation of probabilities of future
Giguere, Alexis, Luginbuhl, Molly, Rundle, John B, Turcotte, Donald L   +3 more
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From repair costs and casualties to human displacements in the aftermath of an earthquake. The case of buildings with and without pre-existing damage exposed to a Mw 7.1 scenario in the Messina Strait, Italy

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
In seismic risk assessment, expert-elicited collapse factors are used to estimate casualties (injuries and fatalities). However, these approaches often overlook buildings’ pre-existing (pre-earthquake) deterioration.
J. Camilo Gomez-Zapata, Cecilia I. Nievas, Graeme Weatherill, Fabrice Cotton   +3 more
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The 1730 Great Metropolitan Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Commemoration: Joint Efforts to Increase the Country’s Awareness

Geosciences, 2020
On 8 July 1730, a great earthquake struck metropolitan Chile, causing extensive damage 1000 km along the country and focused in Valparaíso. Due to the date of occurrence of this event, large uncertainties about the earthquake’s magnitude have been ...
Natalia Zamora, Alejandra Gubler, Víctor Orellana, Jorge León, Alejandro Urrutia, Matías Carvajal, Marco Cisternas, Patricio Catalán, Patricio Winckler, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Cristóbal Karich, Stefan Vogel, José Galaz, Sebastián Pereira, Celeste Bertin   +14 more
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Comparing observed damages and losses with modelled ones using a probabilistic approach: the Lorca 2011 case [PDF]

, 2016
A loss and damage assessment was performed for the buildings of Lorca, Spain, considering an earthquake hazard scenario with similar characteristics to those of a real event which occurred on May 11th, 2011, in terms of epicentre, depth and magnitude ...
Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro, Cardona Arboleda, Omar Dario, Carreño Tibaduiza, Martha Liliana, Salgado Gálvez, Mario Andrés   +3 more
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Microzoning Tsunami Hazard by Combining Flow Depths and Arrival Times

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Tsunami hazard is typically assessed from inundation flow depths estimated from one or many earthquake scenarios. However, information about the exact time when such inundation occurs is seldom considered, yet it is crucial for pedestrian evacuation ...
Natalia Zamora, Natalia Zamora, Patricio A. Catalán, Patricio A. Catalán, Patricio A. Catalán, Alejandra Gubler, Alejandra Gubler, Matías Carvajal, Matías Carvajal   +8 more
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A framework for probabilistic seismic risk assessment of NG distribution networks [PDF]

, 2016
Lifelines are essential infrastructures for human activities and the economic developm ent of a region. Lifelines vulnerability reduction is an actual question, particularly with reference to NaTech events, like earthquakes.
Faleschini, Flora, Hofer, Lorenzo, Maschio, Giuseppe, Vianello, Chiara, Zanini, MARIANO ANGELO   +4 more
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Assessment of Frost Depth and Frost Heave in Romania

Applied Sciences
The investigation of extreme weather and climate events has gained momentum in the last few decades, spurred in part by political involvement. However, not enough attention has been paid to the historical recorded data of climate monitoring.
Cristian Arion, Radu Vacareanu, Alexandru Aldea, Florin Pavel   +3 more
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Modelling seismic ground motion and its uncertainty in different tectonic contexts: challenges and application to the 2020 European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20) [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Current practice in strong ground motion modelling for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) requires the identification and calibration of empirical models appropriate to the tectonic regimes within the region of application, along with ...
G. Weatherill, S. R. Kotha, L. Danciu, S. Vilanova, F. Cotton, F. Cotton   +5 more
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Uncharted seismic risk

Nature Geoscience, 2011
The potential for earthquakes along the plate boundaries has been mapped with reasonable success. Our attention should now focus on the threat posed by unanticipated quakes located in the continental interiors.
England, P, Jackson, J
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