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This volume presents a collection of papers mainly originating from a workshop on Seismic Microzoning, organized during the 23rd General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society in Nice, France, in April 1998. Additional contributions discussing techniques for characterizing soil properties, microzoning applications to several urban areas and other such topics have been added to the volume. In many past and recent earthquakes, it has been shown that the local conditions and, in particular, the local geology have a great influence on the observed seismic ground motion and, consequently, on the damage distribution in housing, industrial stock and life-lines. Seismic microzoning is the usual procedure to have these local effects taken into account for engineering design and land-use planning, being a useful tool for earthquake-risk mitigation. The workshop dealt with various geophysical tools for analysing the effects of the local soils of subsurface geology on seismic ground motion, namely the methods using experimental data such as microtremors, and the theoretical / numerical 1-D and 2-D modelling methods.

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Author:   Antoni Roca ,  Carlos Oliveira
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9783764366520

ISBN 10:   3764366524
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   01 January 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Earthquake Microzoning.- Probabilistic Microzonation of Urban Territories: A Case of Tashkent City.- Active Tectonics and Seismic Zonation of the Urban Area of Florence, Italy.- 1-D Theoretical Modeling for Site Effect Estimations in Thessaloniki: Comparison with Observations.- Site Effects and Design Provisions: The Case of Euroseistest.- 2-D Modeling of Site Effects Along the EURO-SEISTEST Array (Volvi Graben, Greece).- Realistic Modeling of Seismic Input in Urban Areas: A UNESCO-IUGSIGCP Project.- Vrancea Source Influence on Local Seismic Response in Bucharest.- A 2-D Sensitivity Study of the Dynamic Behavior of a Volcanic Hill in the Azores Islands: Comparison with 1-D and 3-D Models.- A Numerical Experiment on the Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio in Flat Sedimentary Basins.- Comparative Study of Microtremor Analysis Methods.- Surface Soil Effects Study Using Short-period Microtremor Observations in Almeria City, Southern Spain.- Preliminary Map of Soil's Predominant Periods in Barcelona Using Micro-tremors.- Caracas, Venezuela, Site Effect Determination with Microtremors.- Microtremor Measurements for the Microzonation of Dinar.- Site Effect Study in Urban Area: Experimental Results in Grenoble (France).- Seismic Zonation of Barcelona Based on Numerical Simulation of Site Effects.- Microzonations of Lisbon: 1-D Theoretical Approach.- Thessaloniki's Detailed Microzoning: Subsurface Structure as Basis for Site Response Analysis.- An Empirical Method to Assess the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Using the HVSR Technique.

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