Science for Earthquake Risk Reduction

Criteria for Seismic Risk Reduction of Earthquake Resistant Buildings

Most of the existing seismic design codes are based on the empirical knowledge accumulated through systematic earthquake damage data collection and their analysis. Required levels of protection and seismic design forces gradually are increased after each series of catastrophic earthquakes particularly in developed countries. Many efforts have been made through experimental and analytical studie...

Earthquake Awareness Programs as a Key for Earthquake Preparedness and Risk Reduction: Lessons from Nepal

Nepal is a highly seismic country having a long history of destructive earthquakes. Huge loss of life and property had occurred in series of earthquakes in the past and it is believed that next big earthquake is around the corner. Studies have estimated a heavy loss of life and property due to the possible future earthquake in the country. The impact of destructive earthquakes can only be reduc...

Grid services for earthquake science

We describe an information system architecture for the ACES (Asia-Pacific Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation) community. It addresses several key features of the field – simulations at multiple scales that need to be coupled together; real-time and archival observational data, which needs to be analyzed for patterns and linked to the simulations; a variety of important algorithms including p...

The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability perspective on computational earthquake science

The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) aims to advance earthquake research by rigorous testing of earthquake forecast hypotheses. As in other disciplines, such hypothesis testing requires carefully designed experiments that meet certain requirements: they should be reproducible, fully transparent, and conducted within a controlled environment. CSEP has begun buildin...

Earthquake simulations: ground-breaking science on HPCx