<p>Turkey, being located in a highly seismically active region, has experienced several devastating earthquakes throughout its history. The recent Mw 7.4 1999 Kocaeli and Mw 7.2 2011 Van earthquakes caused a considerable amount of economical losses and physical ...

Following the magnitude 7.1 Greendale earthquake on 4 September, 2010 and the magnitude 6.3 Lyttelton aftershock on 22 February, 2011 (which caused severe damage to the Christchurch CBD, the Eastern and Southern suburbs, the Port Hills and Lyttelton), the ...

The Waikato Expressway is being constructed in a number of sections. Opus has been involved in the scheme assessment and specimen design stages for the Hamilton and Cambridge Bypass sections and is currently part of the alliance team constructing the Te Rapa ...

The recent elevated rate of large earthquakes has fueled concern that the underlying global rate of earthquake activity has increased, which would have important implications for assessments of seismic hazard and our understanding of how faults interact. We ...

We compare site-specific response spectra and hazard maps from the recently-updated national seismic hazard model (2010 NSHM) and predecessor NSHM of 2002. The new model incorporates over 200 new onshore and offshore fault sources, and utilises newly-developed ...

After the two recent earthquakes in Christchurch (September 2010 and February 2011) a team of researchers organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) was dispatched to the area to conduct a damage survey. The survey addressed a variety ...

This chapter is a guide to the geotechnical designer who is responsible for providing geotechnical/seismicinput parameters to the structural engineers for their use in structural design of the transportation infrastructure (e.g., bridges, retaining walls, ...

Shaking from the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake (M 7.0) caused devastating structural damage and triggered many landslides that blocked roads, dammed rivers and streams, and threatened infrastructure in many parts of Haiti. The earthquake had a complex ...

<p>This manual is intended to provide a technical resource for bridge and geotechnical engineers responsible for seismic analysis and design of transportation geotechnical features and structures such as soil and rock slopes, earth embankments, retaining structures ...

<p>The primary intent of this guide is to explain the sources of nonstructural earthquake damag-e in simple tenns. and to provide information on effective methods of reducing the potential risks. The recommendations contained in this guide are intended to ...