This paper is about the numerical simulation of historic earhquakes, in order to improve the knowledge of past phenomena and contribute to the assessment of the regional seismic hazard.

The goal of this paper is to show which areas are particularly prone to earthquake-induced slope failure. In this regard, the paper considers the short- and long-term effects of geological, tectonic, climatic and morphological conditions. Case histories related ...

The 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake triggered several thousand landslides. These were mainly rock falls and debris falls, although translational rock and debris slides also occurred. In addition, a sturzstrom (debris avalanche) comprising ∼80 million m3 ...

In this study are constructed finite element models (FEMs) that simulate deformation of the earthquake for a three-dimensional problem domain partitioned to account for the distribution of material properties of the subducting slab, forearc, volcanic arc, ...

To understand the reason why the co-seismic slip and tsunami amplitudes were so high in this region, was performed the "Sumatra Aftershocks" cruise (R/V Marion Dufresne, Jakarta, July 15 - Colombo, August 9, 2005) in order to establish the geodynamical context ...

To understand the role of the co-seismic moment magnitude, Mw, 9.1–9.3 Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake rupture mechanism on the severity of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, we used permanent Global Positioning System (GPS) data and carried out an analysis of co-seismic ...

<p>On March 2005, the River Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport issued &ldquo;Guidelines for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Dams during Large Earthquakes (Draft).&rdquo; The Draft Guidelines describe the methods for systematically ...

Behaviour of piles in liquefied soils is discussed based on results of recent<br>studies in Japan including (a) field performance and damage features of piles observed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake, (b) experimental findings from benchmark tests on full-size ...

The 2004 Chuetsu earthquake (M 6.8) triggered thousands of landslides in the Miocene to Quaternary sedimentary rocks in Japan. The most common landslides were shallow disrupted landslides on steep slopes without geologic preference, but deep, coherent landslides ...

In this paper is investigated the old seismograms of several earthquakes which occurred offshore of Miyagi prefecture in 1933 (June 18, 21:37 UT), 1936 (Nov. 2, 20:45 UT), 1937 (July 26, 19:56 UT), 1978 (June 12, 08:14 UT), and 2005 (Aug. 16, 02:46 UT).