Borges M1,2,3, Gouveia M4, Alarcão J1, Sousa R1, Teixeira E5, Barata F6, Laranjeira E1, Lopes F1, Parente B7, Pinheiro L1, Vaz-Carneiro A1, Costa J1,2 1 Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 2 Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal 3 Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, Lisbon Portugal 4 Católica Lisbo...

In the framework of the three-year SCHEMA European project (www.schemaproject.org), we present a generic methodology developed to produce tsunami building vulnerability and impact maps. We apply this methodology to the Moroccan coast. This study focuses on the Bouregreg Valley which is at the junction between Rabat (administrative capital), and Salé. Both present large populations and new infra...

The great Assam earthquake of 12 June 1897 reduced to rubble all masonry buildings within a region of NE India roughly the size of England, and its felt area exceeded that of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. Hitherto it was believed that rupture occurred on a north-dipping Himalayan thrust propagating south of Bhutan . We show here that this view is incorrect. The northern edge of the Shillong Plate...

Lessons from recent earthquakes have provided a tough reality check of the traditional seismic design approach and technologies, highlighting urgent need for paradigm shift performance-based criteria objectives toward low-damage philosophy technologies whole building system. Modern society is asking “earthquake proof” resilient buildings that are able to withstand events without compromising th...

Substantial tragic effects result from great earthquakes – damage, deaths, tsunamis. Various groups, including seismologists, seismic engineers, government officials and insurers seek to quantify the effects in order to proceed with their work. The quantification methods employed include seismic intensity scales and damageability matrices particularly. Principal intensity scales employed are: t...

Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon Luís Caires, New University of Lisbon Marco Carbone, ITU Copenhagen Pierre-Malo Deniélou, Royal Holloway, University of London Dimitris Mostrous, University of Lisbon Luca Padovani, University of Turin António Ravara, New University of Lisbon Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester...

1. Instituto História da Arte da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (IHA-FLUL), Laboratório de Conservação e Restauro José de Figueiredo do Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação (LCRJF-IMC), Lisbon, Portugal 2. Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal 3. Laboratório de Conservação e Restauro José de Figueiredo do Instituto dos Museus e da...

1 UR MaNE, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Zarzouna, Tunisia, 2 Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 3 Department of Chemistry, UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, 4 Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lis...

Risk has been defined, for management purposes, as the potential economic, social and environmental consequences of hazardous events that may occur in a specified period of time. However, in the past, the concept of risk has been defined in a fragmentary way in many cases, according to each scientific discipline involved in its appraisal. From the perspective of this article, risk requires a mu...