On the 8th of June 2008 an earthquake of magnitude Ms=6.5 occurred in Western Greece, affecting Achaia and Ilia Prefectures. According to state reports 2 casualties occurred, 214 people were injured and more than 15 villages and towns suffered extensive damages ...

The February 27, 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake (Mw = 8.8) is the fifth largest earthquake to occur since 1900. Its effects were felt along 600 km of the central Chile coast. Initial field observations suggest that tectonic displacement of the hanging wall produced ...

<p>Broadband synthetics obtained from scenario simulations of earthquakes with a frequency content between 0 and 10 Hz, referred to hereafter as &ldquo;BBSs,&rdquo; are playing an increasingly important role in seismic hazard analysis. An example is the Great ...

<p>We conduct a comprehensive study of the Amorgos, Greece earthquake and tsunami of 1956 July 09, the largest such event in the Aegean Sea in the 20th century. Systematic relocation of the main shock and 34 associated events defines a rupture area measuring ...

<p>The state of art of tunnel earthquake damages and tunnel earthquake damage mechanism are briefly introduced in this paper. According to tunnel&rsquo;s traffic function and damage descriptions based on the investigation, tunnel damages are divided into five ...

Liquefaction triggering assessments are often performed for individual locations, providing little information in regard to the expected spatial extent of liquefaction events. The present paper proposes a method to quantify the potential extent of liquefaction ...

<p>According to the recent earthquakes Near-Fault ground motions in the vicinity of quake field caused many damages. There is evidence indicating that ground shaking near a fault rupture may be characterized by an impulsive motion that exposes structures to ...

New Zealand is located in the area of active seismicity on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates. Most dams in New Zealand are in the close proximity to active faults and some dams have been built across active faults. The paper describes ...

<p>The current paper aims at presenting the liquefaction potential assessment of Chandigarh city on the basis of local geology, seismotectonics and geotechnical variances. A data of about 200+ bore holes comprising the geotechnical information along with the ...

<p>Critical for the seismic safety of immersed tunnels is the magnitude of deformations developing in the segment joints, as a result of the combined longitudinal and lateral vibrations. Analysis and design against such vibrations is the main focus of this ...