Coburn and Spence reported in 2002 that for the last century, the economic losses due to earthquakes are about thousand billions of dollards. They mentionned also the increasing loss per year, mainly due to the increase and concentration of population in major urban centers exposed to high seismic hazard. Cities becoming larger, located in high seismic prone regions and made of a heterogeneous buildings with variable quality, are the ingredients that place urban environment as a critical element for seismic risk assessment. This assertion is also supported by the fact that many mega-cities are founded, for historical and sociological reasons, on sedimentary fills aggravating the local seismic hazard. Moreover, existing buildings present a l...
On a properly urban scale, the “response ” of a town to a seismic event depends also on the many fea...
It is most generally admitted that seimic ground motion is the convolution of source, path and site ...
In this article, interpretation of an equivalent to a macroseismic intensity survey, performed in th...
Coburn and Spence reported in 2002 that for the last century, the economic losses due to earthquakes...
We can neither predict, nor fight against an earthquake. At the most, we can try to limit the damage...
Looking at the damages caused in different cities by earthquakes, it is possible to note that damage...
The analysis of losses suffered by city from seismic events is very often carried out focusing on hu...
In dense urban areas, seismic wave amplification in alluvial desposits ("site effects") can be addit...
International audienceThis work focuses on the analysis of the multiple interactions between soil la...
The stakes estimation as the basis for the analysis of urban systems vulnerability : the validity of...
During the last twenty years, a number of publications of theoretical-numerical nature have appeared...
Various disciplines have focused on risk for many years. For a long time, risk has been analysed mai...
On a properly urban scale, the “response ” of a town to a seismic event depends also on the many fea...
It is most generally admitted that seimic ground motion is the convolution of source, path and site ...
In this article, interpretation of an equivalent to a macroseismic intensity survey, performed in th...
Coburn and Spence reported in 2002 that for the last century, the economic losses due to earthquakes...
We can neither predict, nor fight against an earthquake. At the most, we can try to limit the damage...
Looking at the damages caused in different cities by earthquakes, it is possible to note that damage...
The analysis of losses suffered by city from seismic events is very often carried out focusing on hu...
In dense urban areas, seismic wave amplification in alluvial desposits ("site effects") can be addit...
International audienceThis work focuses on the analysis of the multiple interactions between soil la...
The stakes estimation as the basis for the analysis of urban systems vulnerability : the validity of...
During the last twenty years, a number of publications of theoretical-numerical nature have appeared...
Various disciplines have focused on risk for many years. For a long time, risk has been analysed mai...
On a properly urban scale, the “response ” of a town to a seismic event depends also on the many fea...
It is most generally admitted that seimic ground motion is the convolution of source, path and site ...
In this article, interpretation of an equivalent to a macroseismic intensity survey, performed in th...