Analysis of the seismic risk to a structure requires assessment of both the rate of occurrence of future earthquake ground motions hazard and the effect of these ground motions on the structure response . These two pieces are often linked using an intensity measure such as spectral acceleration. However, earth scientists typically use the geometric mean of the spectral accelerations of the two ...

Seismic hazard analyses, either in a deterministic (DSHA) or probabilistic (PSHA) framework, are both commonly adopted for evaluating earthquake risk. Although different in methodology, both approaches involving tedious calculation are certainly a computer-aided analysis. For Taiwan, a few PSHA studies have been conducted, but not a single comprehensive DSHA study is yet available for this regi...

This paper conducts a detailed review of the seismic hazard, inventory, bridge vulnerability, and bridge retrofit practices in the Central and Southeastern United States CSUS . Based on the analysis of the bridge inventory in the CSUS, it was found that over 12,927 bridges 12.6% are exposed to 7% probability of exceedance PE in 75-year peak ground acceleration PGA of greater than 0.20 g, and ne...

A gas distribution system comprises two main categories of components: (i) a number of point-like critical facilities (reduction stations and groups); and (ii) pipelines constituting the distribution network. The causes of earthquake damage to components of gas systems include permanent ground deformation (PGD) hazard produced by fault displacements, landslides, liquefaction of sandy soils, as ...

This paper presents a study to statistically characterize the joint earthquake-snow hazard and subsequently develop maximum inter-story drift fragility curves for a series of archetype woodframe structures. Of particular focus are structures built in heavy-snow regions where seismic design may govern (and hence the roof snow load contributes additional seismic mass). While load standards such a...

This article presents updated seismic hazard curves, spectra, and maps of ground motion intensity measures for the northern region Dominican Republic (DR) obtained using a probabilistic analysis (PSHA). The performed uses as input data an earthquake recurrence model based on fault slip rates derived from GPS measurements published in aftermath 2010 Haiti earthquake. seismicity rate are used to ...

This study develops a novel simulation-based procedure for the estimation of the likelihood that seismic intensity (in terms of spectral acceleration) and tsunami inundation (in terms of wave height), at a particular location, will exceed given hazard levels. The procedure accounts for a common physical rupture process for shaking and tsunami. Numerous realizations of stochastic slip distributi...

This paper describes the state of art urbanization in Italian coastal areas 2021, both at national and regional level. Moreover, we focused on six municipalities, aiming to evaluate land consumption relation population dynamics between 2012 2021 assessing per capita consumed each municipality. Finally, an analysis specific prone natural risks along coastline (hydraulic, landslide seismic, hazar...