Afghanistan earthquake hazards mapped

Izmit Earthquake on Seismic Hazards in Istanbul

We calculate the probability of strong shaking in Istanbul—an urban center of 10 million people—from the description of earthquakes on the North Anatolian fault system in the Marmara Sea during the past 500 years, and test the resulting catalog against the frequency of damage in Istanbul during the preceding millennium. Departing from current practice, we include the time-dependent effect of st...

Earthquake hazards on the cascadia subduction zone.

Large subduction earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone pose a potential seismic hazard. Very young oceanic lithosphere (10 million years old) is being subducted beneath North America at a rate of approximately 4 centimeters per year. The Cascadia subduction zone shares many characteristics with subduction zones in southern Chile, southwestern Japan, and Colombia, where comparably young oc...

Health Hazards in Central Asia on Afghanistan Example

Introduction Traveling to Afghanistan nowadays is truly health& and life&threatening (1, 2). Destroyed country infrastructure, low sanitary and epidemiologic conditions, low level of medical assistance (lack of medical personnel, shortage of basic medicines and hygienic means) – all contribute to the dissemination of many infectious and non&infectious diseases (3& 5). More than 70% of the healt...

Surveying Earthquake Vulnerabilities of District 13 of Kabul City, Afghanistan

High population and irregular urban development in Kabul city, Afghanistan's capital, are among factors that increase its vulnerability to earthquake disasters (on top of its location in a high seismic region); this can lead to widespread economic loss and casualties. This study aims to evaluate earthquake risks in Kabul's 13th district based on scientific data. The research data, which include...

Modeling Soil Liquefaction Hazards for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering