average level of education in a way to be easily understandable and practicable. After the Bam earthquake, local community …

Some analogies in the distribution of damage in the 1985 Mexico, 1989 Loma Prieta, and 1995 Kobe earthquakes may be … of the many unanticipated ways in which earthquake hazard may become an emergent property of complex nature …

On 30 September 2009 at 05:16 pm local time (10:16 am UTC), a major earthquake registering a magnitude M <Subscript … seismic gaps suggest another earthquake with a magnitude greater than 8.7 may occur, these observations are particularly … significant. One of the vital features of this earthquake was a number of very large and devastating landslides that occurred in …

seismic solicitation (assuming an M6 earthquake at 10 km distance). The second aerial bridge, the three levels arches Pont du … differential static stress of 4 MPa or greater, which can only be achieved very close to the fault rupture of a M > 6 earthquake …

1 as proposed for Jordan by several authors. Time-history analysis was made using the El Centro (N-S) earthquake record … of May 1940 as an actual earthquake excitation. The response reduction factor (R) that primarily consists of two factors …

On March 20th, 2006, a moderate earthquake (M<Subscript>w</Subscript> = 5.2) struck the Laalam (NE-Algeria). The damage … peoples homeless. Damage and casualties are directly related to an earthquake-induced landslide occurred at 10 km far from the … time where the landslide was activated extends back to 1974 following another moderate earthquake. This landslide reminds …

Satellite thermal infrared images contain valuable earthquake precursor information. Past studies concluded that such … information appeared only a few days or dozens of days before an earthquake would occur. In our study, though, we observed that … the time intervals between the thermal infrared precursor and an earthquake’s occurrence can be up to 10 years. An …

variability of the earthquake rupture process, (2) specify 25 deterministic earthquake sources, and (3) use resulting vertical …

and northern Chile for zones bounded by 5–35° S latitude. Tsunamigenic earthquake estimates yield magnitudes of 8.52, 8 … between earthquake magnitudes and tsunamis, we estimate expected tsunami wave heights for various return periods. The average … the next strong earthquake and tsunami will occur between 19 and 28° S in the vicinity of northern Chile. Copyright …