Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk

1. Front Matter

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2. Some Remarks Concerning Worldwide Urban Earthquake Hazard and Earthquake Hazard Mitigation

   • Brian E. Tucker, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Sarah J. Wyss

   Pages 1-10

3. Socioeconomic and Political Considerations in Developing Earthquake Damage Scenarios in Urban Areas

   • Shirley Mattingly

   Pages 11-19

4. Seismological Information Necessary for Beneficial Earthquake Risk Reduction

   • Bruce A. Bolt

   Pages 21-33

5. Geotechnical Aspects of the Estimation and Mitigation of Earthquake Risk

   • W. D. Liam Finn

   Pages 35-77

6. Estimation of Earthquake Damage to Buildings and Other Structures in Large Urban Areas

   • Christopher Rojahn

   Pages 79-101

7. Creating the Scenario and Drafting Earthquake Hazard Reduction Initiatives

   • George G. Mader

   Pages 103-113

8. The Quito Project: Technical Aspects and Lessons

   • Jeanette Fernandez, Jorge Valverde, Hugo Yepes, Gonzalo Bustamente, Jean-Luc Chatelain

   Pages 115-120

9. Governmental Aspects of the Earthquake Damage Scenario Project of Quito, Ecuador

   • Teodoro Abdo S.

   Pages 121-124

10. Developing a Comprehensive Earthquake Disaster Masterplan for Istanbul

    • Mustafa Erdik

    Pages 125-166

11. Seismic Risk on the Territory of the City of Yerevan, Armenia

    • S. Balassanian, A. Manukian

    Pages 167-182

12. Status of Seismic Hazard and Risk Management in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

    • R. P. Yadav, P. L. Singh, A. M. Dixit, R. D. Sharpe

    Pages 183-197

13. Earthquake Disaster Countermeasures in Saitama Prefecture, Japan

    • Fumio Kaneko

    Pages 199-213

14. Arguments for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation in the Kamchatka Region

    • Mark A. Klyachko

    Pages 215-219

15. Seismic Risk and Hazard Reduction in Vancouver, British Columbia

    • Carlos E. Ventura, Norman D. Schuster

    Pages 221-236

16. Earthquake Hazards in the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area

    • Héctor Monzón-Despang, José Luis Gándara Gaborit

    Pages 237-246

17. Earthquake Hazard in El Salvador

    • Abigaíl Castro de Pérez, María Luisa Benítez, José Luis Rivera

    Pages 247-250

18. Seismic Safety of the Lima Metropolitan Area

    • Jorge E. Alva Hurtado

    Pages 251-264

19. Earthquake Damage Scenarios in Lisbon for Disaster Preparedness

    • L. Mendes-Victor, C. S. Oliveira, I. Pais, P. Teves-Costa

    Pages 265-289

20. Granada Facing an Earthquake

    • F. Vidal, G. Del Castillo

    Pages 291-300

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban seismic safety is improved, particularly in developing countries, future earthquakes will have ever more disastrous social and economic consequences. In July 1992, an international meeting was organized with the purpose of examining one means ofimproving worldwide urban safety. Entitled "Uses ofEarthquake Damage Scenarios for Cities of the 21st Century," this meeting was held in conjunction with the Tenth World Conference ofEarthquake Engineering, in Madrid, Spain. An earthquake damage scenario (EDS) is adescription of the consequences to an urban area of a large, but expectable earthquake on the critical facilities of that area. In Californian and Japanese cities, EDSes have been used for several decades, mainly for the needs of emergency response officials. The Madrid meeting examined uses of this technique for other purposes and in other, less developed countries. As a result of this meeting, it appeared that EDSes bad significant potential to improve urban seismic safety worldwide.

• Earthquake
• formation
• geotechnical engineering
• hazard
• safety
• seismic
• hydrogeology

• GeoHazards International, San Francisco, USA

  Brian E. Tucker, Christina N. Hwang

• Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

  Mustafa Erdik

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