Increasing Seismic Safety by Combining Engineering Technologies and Seismological Data

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mucciarelli, Marco (Editor), Herak, Marijan (Editor), Cassidy, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Civil engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Civil Engineering.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.

The current state-of-the-art allows seismologists to give statistical estimates of the probability of a large earthquake striking a given region, identifying the areas in which the seismic hazard is the highest. However, the usefulness of these estimates is limited, without information about local s...