Among the natural hazards and major catastrophes, earthquakes are one of the most deadly, damaging and unpredictable of all. With increasing impacts in countries' economies and casualties, modern earthquakes cost in average tens of billons of dollars and kill 35,000 people per year worldwide (USGS). The planet is experiencing the consequences of the large urban population growth of the last century.With the extensive damage observed after the moderate-to-strong earthquakes of the last decades, awareness of natural catastrophes has considerably increased. There is therefore, a growing demand for detailed seismic risk analysis to strengthen disaster risk mitigation and response. This risk assessment requires not only the estimation of the sei...