Earthquake Hazards: Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Editat de Rasoul Sorkhabien Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2023
- Presents the latest research on seismic natural hazards and risk assessment, economic impacts, fatality rates, and earthquake preparedness and mitigation
- Includes numerous illustrations, maps, diagrams and tables addressing earthquake risk reduction
- Features new insights and reviews of earthquake prediction, forecasting and early warning, as well as basic tools that deal with earthquake risk
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Public țintă
Geoscientists, including seismologists and earthquake geologists, and natural hazard experts; Academics, researchers and students in earthquake engineeringCuprins
Part I. Topical and Methodological 1. Earthquake Hazard Science: A Historical Perspective 2. Remote Sensing for Disaster Response: A Rapid, Image-Based Perspective 3. The Capabilities of Earth Observation to Contribute along the Risk Cycle 4. Ten Years of Real-Time Earthquake Loss Alerts 5. Forecasting Seismic Risk as an Earthquake Sequence Happens 6. The Socioeconomic Impact of Earthquake Disasters 7. The Contribution of Paleoseismology to Earthquake Hazard Evaluations 8. The Role of Microzonation in Estimating Earthquake Risk 9. Why are the Standard Probabilistic Methods of Estimating Seismic Hazard and Risks Too Often Wrong 10. The Continued Utility of Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Assessment 11. Precarious Rocks: Providing Upper Limits on Past Ground Shaking from Earthquakes 12. Quantifying Improvements in Earthquake-Rupture Forecasts through Testable Models 13. Times of Increased Probabilities for Occurrence of Catastrophic Earthquakes: 25 Years of Hypothesis Testing in Real Time 14. To What Extent Can Engineering Reduce Seismic Risk? 15. Decision Making under Uncertainty: Insuring and Reinsuring Earthquake Risk 16. On synergies among learning from earthquakes and tsunami disasters and development of ocean industries
Part II. Countries and Case Studies 17. Review of the Nationwide Earthquake Early Warning in Japan during Its First Five Years 18. The Most Useful Countermeasure Against Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis – What We Learned from Interviews of 164 Tsunami Survivors (Japan) 19. The Experience of Real-Time Earthquake Predictions on Kamchatka 20. Duties of Earthquake Forecast: Cases and Lessons in China 21. 10-year Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Lessons: Short-Term Built Environment Reconstruction and Long-Term Social Recovery 22. How to Render Schools Safe in Developing Countries? (Nepal) 23. Aggravated Earthquake Risk in South Asia: Engineering versus Human Nature 24. A Twenty-first Century Requiem for Earthquake Hazard Risk Mitigation in Contemporary Iran 25. Earthquake hazard, risk and risk mitigation in Turkey 26. Earthquake hazard assessment and mitigation in Armenia 27. The Assessment of Earthquake Hazard in Italy in View of the Building Code 28. Earthquake risk assessment and mitigation in Mexico City 29. Ground-motion modeling and earthquake hazard mapping in California (Added from reviewer feedback) 30. Disaster-Risk Reduction Through the Training of Masons and Public Information Campaigns: Experience of SDC’s Competence Centre for Reconstruction in Haiti 31. Earthquake hazard assessment and mapping in New Zealand (Added from reviewer feedback) 32. Synthesis: Lessons Learned
Part II. Countries and Case Studies 17. Review of the Nationwide Earthquake Early Warning in Japan during Its First Five Years 18. The Most Useful Countermeasure Against Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis – What We Learned from Interviews of 164 Tsunami Survivors (Japan) 19. The Experience of Real-Time Earthquake Predictions on Kamchatka 20. Duties of Earthquake Forecast: Cases and Lessons in China 21. 10-year Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Lessons: Short-Term Built Environment Reconstruction and Long-Term Social Recovery 22. How to Render Schools Safe in Developing Countries? (Nepal) 23. Aggravated Earthquake Risk in South Asia: Engineering versus Human Nature 24. A Twenty-first Century Requiem for Earthquake Hazard Risk Mitigation in Contemporary Iran 25. Earthquake hazard, risk and risk mitigation in Turkey 26. Earthquake hazard assessment and mitigation in Armenia 27. The Assessment of Earthquake Hazard in Italy in View of the Building Code 28. Earthquake risk assessment and mitigation in Mexico City 29. Ground-motion modeling and earthquake hazard mapping in California (Added from reviewer feedback) 30. Disaster-Risk Reduction Through the Training of Masons and Public Information Campaigns: Experience of SDC’s Competence Centre for Reconstruction in Haiti 31. Earthquake hazard assessment and mapping in New Zealand (Added from reviewer feedback) 32. Synthesis: Lessons Learned