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Dissemination strategies to instil a culture of safety on earthquake hazard and risk
Dissemination of knowledge should be a core objective for scientists who work with communities exposed to natural disasters. This task requires the spread of knowledge, to make the public aware in a simple, e...
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The role of the urban system dysfunction in the assessment of seismic risk in the Mt. Etna area (Italy)
A procedure for seismic risk assessment is applied to the Mt. Etna area (eastern Sicily, Italy) through assessment of urban system dysfunction following the occurrence of an earthquake. The tool used is based ...
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Education: Can a bottom-up strategy help for earthquake disaster prevention?
To comply with the need to spread the culture of earthquake disaster reduction, we rely on strategies that involve education. Risk education is a long-term process that passes from knowledge, through understa...
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Building vulnerability and seismic risk analysis in the urban area of Mt. Etna volcano (Italy)
The tectonic system of the eastern flank of Mt. Etna volcano (Sicily, Italy) is the source of most of the strongest earthquakes occurring in the area over the last 205 years. A total of 12 events with epicent...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Applying the Disruption Index Procedure to Evaluate the Urban Seismic Risk in the Mt. Etna Area (Italy)
The Disruption Index is used here for the assessment of urban disruption in the Mt. Etna area after a natural disaster. The first element of the procedure is the definition of the seismic input, which is based...
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Assessing Seismic Damage Through Stochastic Simulation of Ground Shaking: The Case of the 1998 Faial Earthquake (Azores Islands)
In July 1998, an M w = 6.2 earthquake struck the islands of Faial, Pico and San Jorge (in the Azores Archipelago), registering VIII on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale and causing maj...
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Simulating Earthquake Scenarios in the European Project LESSLOSS: The Case of Lisbon
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The SERGISAI procedure for seismic risk assessment
The European project SERGISAI developed a computational tool where amethodology for seismic risk assessment at different geographical scales hasbeen implemented. Experts of various disciplines, including seism...
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Seismic Risk Evaluation
This paper reports the main results of the EC-ProjectSERGISAI. The project developed a computer prototypewhere a methodology for seismic risk assessment hasbeen implemented. Standard procedural codes,Geographi...
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A different intensity recording for reducing the uncertainty in its assessment: An application to the completeness analysis of earthquake catalogues
The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the consequences of the ordinal and qualitative nature of seismic intensity regarding its recording. The classical way of recording by an integer value implies that on...
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Seismic hazard computations for regions with low earthquake activity — A case study for the Belgium, The Netherlands and NW Germany area
The algorithms to evaluate seismic hazard, used and/or developed by five teams participating in the TERESA project, applied to the low seismicity area ‘Belgium, The Netherlands and NW Germany’ are compared. Th...
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Assessment of seismic hazard for the Sannio-Matese area of Southern Italy — A summary
The working group on ‘Test Regions for Evaluation of Methods for Seismic Hazard Assessment in Europe (TERESA)’, consisted of 15 members from 10 different European countries. Methods and experience gathered in the...
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Preliminary results of seismic hazard assessment in the Sannio-Matese area of Southern Italy
The seismic hazard in the Sannio-Matese area has been worked out by a modification of the McGuire (1976) computing programme, taking into account the influence of nine potential seismic source zones.
