earthquakes and seismically triggered landslides pose extreme risk to > 18 million people in the densely populated region of southern California11. In this light, the southern San Andreas Fault is perhaps one of the most well-studied and monitored seismically active faults in the world4,11,12...
Beyond the entry arch is an extensive area of temples, gymnasia, fountains, and other sites, all ruins now due to earthquakes and river floods. The Greek island of Santorini was probably the most beautiful place we visited. The photo shows the caldera, now mostly under the sea, of a huge...
Identification of Amplified Damage Zones in Palermo, Sicily (Italy), during the Earthquakes of the Last Three Centuries (recent alluvial deposits and man-made fill) present in the historic center of Palermo implies a difference in Mercalli Cancani Sieberg (MCS) intensity ... Guidoboni,E. - 《...
Bozzano F, Gambino P, Prestininzi A, Scarascia-Mugnozza G, Valentini G (1998) Ground effects induced by the Umbria-Marche earthquakes of September-October 1997, Central Italy. In: Proceedings of the eighth international congress of the international association for engineering geology and the envi...
Increasing urbanization and shortage of land results in the need to build taller and more complex structures which can be more vulnerable to lateral forces created by wind and earthquakes. Effects of natural hazards on civil engineering structures is, therefore, an important field of research. ...