Earthquake Hazards

Earthquake Hazards

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Sorkhabi, Rasoul

Elsevier Science & Technology

11/2029

300

Dura

Inglês

9780323916677

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Part I. Topical and Methodological1. Earthquake Hazard Science: A Historical Perspective2. Remote Sensing for Disaster Response: A Rapid, Image-Based Perspective3. The Capabilities of Earth Observation to Contribute along the Risk Cycle4. Ten Years of Real-Time Earthquake Loss Alerts5. Forecasting Seismic Risk as an Earthquake Sequence Happens6. The Socioeconomic Impact of Earthquake Disasters7. The Contribution of Paleoseismology to Earthquake Hazard Evaluations8. The Role of Microzonation in Estimating Earthquake Risk9. Why are the Standard Probabilistic Methods of Estimating Seismic Hazard and Risks Too Often Wrong10. The Continued Utility of Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Assessment11. Precarious Rocks: Providing Upper Limits on Past Ground Shaking from Earthquakes12. Quantifying Improvements in Earthquake-Rupture Forecasts through Testable Models13. Times of Increased Probabilities for Occurrence of Catastrophic Earthquakes: 25 Years of Hypothesis Testing in Real Time14. To What Extent Can Engineering Reduce Seismic Risk?15. Decision Making under Uncertainty: Insuring and Reinsuring Earthquake Risk16. On synergies among learning from earthquakes and tsunami disasters and development of ocean industries

Part II. Countries and Case Studies17. Review of the Nationwide Earthquake Early Warning in Japan during Its First Five Years18. 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 Kamchatka20. Duties of Earthquake Forecast: Cases and Lessons in China21. 10-year Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Lessons: Short-Term Built Environment Reconstruction and Long-Term Social Recovery22. How to Render Schools Safe in Developing Countries? (Nepal)23. Aggravated Earthquake Risk in South Asia: Engineering versus Human Nature24. A Twenty-first Century Requiem for Earthquake Hazard Risk Mitigation in Contemporary Iran25. Earthquake hazard, risk and risk mitigation in Turkey26. Earthquake hazard assessment and mitigation in Armenia27. The Assessment of Earthquake Hazard in Italy in View of the Building Code28. Earthquake risk assessment and mitigation in Mexico City29. 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 Haiti31. Earthquake hazard assessment and mapping in New Zealand (Added from reviewer feedback)32. Synthesis: Lessons Learned
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Natural hazards; Earthquake; Seismology; Geophysics; Risk Assessment; Disaster Mitigation; Hazard Preparedness