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Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction

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Editors:
  1. Serguei Balassanian

    1. Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia

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  2. Armando Cisternas

    1. Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, France

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  3. Mikael Melkumyan

    1. Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia

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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 12)

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Disaster Reduction

    1. Seismic Risk Reduction Strategy in the XXI Century

      • S. Balassanian
      Pages 1-11

    2. Building Local Capacity for Earthquake Loss Reduction

      • Shirley Mattingly
      Pages 13-20

    3. Disaster ASsistance in Cold Weather Conditions: An Overview of Issues and Options

      • Charles Kelly
      Pages 21-30

    4. Actual State of Technical Cooperation on Earthquake Disaster Prevention Case Study: Jica Earthquake Disaster Prevention Project in Mexico

      • H. Kitajima
      Pages 31-40

    5. Radius Initiative for IDNDR a Practical Approach to Reduce Urban Seismic Risk

      • Kenji Okazaki
      Pages 41-48

    6. Urban Seismic Risk Mitigation in Asia: Examples from Radius Case Studies

      • R. K. Shaw, F. Kaneko, S. Segawa, J. Sun
      Pages 49-67

    7. The Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Project (KVERMP): Project Motivation and Description

      • A. M. Dixit, L. Dwelley-Samant, M. Nakarmi, S. B. Pradhanang, B. Tucker
      Pages 69-74

    8. The Role of the Subjective Factors in the Seismic Risk

      • A. Tarverdyan
      Pages 75-77

  3. Earthquake Hazard

    1. Major and Great Earthquakes in the Himalayan Region: An Overview

      • Harsh K. Gupta
      Pages 79-85

    2. Seismicity of The Spitak Earthquake Source Zone Vicinity

      • R. E. Tatevossian, S. S. Arefiev, H. Haessler
      Pages 87-97

    3. Southern Javakhet Earthquake Swarm. Stress Tensor Orientation Derived from Focal Mechanism Data

      • A. K. Tovmasyan
      Pages 99-107

    4. The Digital Accelerograph Network in the Caucasus

      • P. Smit, V. Arzoumanian, Z. Javakhishvili, S. Arefiev, D. Mayer-Rosa, S. Balassanian et al.
      Pages 109-118

    5. Implications of the Duration of Strong Ground Motion: (Observations from the U.S. Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, 1989)

      • M. Tiv
      Pages 119-125

    6. Seismicity and Cultural Monuments of Georgia

      • V. Zaalishvili, O. Sulaberidze, T. Chelidze, O. Varazanashvili, Z. Javakhishvili
      Pages 127-136

    7. Geomorphological Aspects of the Forming of Earthquake Intensity Effect in Highlands

      • V. Zaalishvili, S. Gogmachadze
      Pages 137-144

    8. On Estimation of Dominant Vibration Periods of Site

      • O. Kuranova, A. Odisharia, V. Zaalishvili
      Pages 145-151

    9. A Major Neotectonic Structure Within the Arabia — Eurasia Collisional Orogen: The Ararat — Araks Conjugate Fault System and Its Possible Impact on the Safety of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant

      • H. K. Mkrtchian
      Pages 153-161

    10. One Inequality of Elastokinetics and Its Application in Seismology

      • G. Gabrichidze
      Pages 163-167

    11. Earthquake Prediction Research for Current Seismic Hazard Assessment

      • S. Balassanian
      Pages 169-209
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About this book

In 1998 Armenia was commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Spitak earthquake. The Second International Conference on "Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction" sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and United Nation's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN/IDNDR) was held in dedication to that event between 14-21 September (later referred to as Yerevan Conference). The Yerevan Conference has been organized by the National Survey for Seismic Protection (NSSP) of the Republic of Armenia. All level's decision-makers (from the ministers to the local authorities), politicians, scientists, leaders of the executive and legislative powers, psychologists, leading businessmen, representatives from the private sector and the media as well as from the International Organizations have been invited by the Armenian NSSP to take part in joint discussion of the Seismic Risk Reduction Problem for the first time in the history of such forums. Armenian NSSP's such initiative has been triggered by the experience of the Spitak earthquake and other disasters. They showed that it will be possible to reduce the risks, posed by the natural disaster, only through the common efforts of all the community in co-operation with the International institutions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia

    Serguei Balassanian, Mikael Melkumyan

  • Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, France

    Armando Cisternas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction

  • Editors: Serguei Balassanian, Armando Cisternas, Mikael Melkumyan

  • Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9544-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6390-3Published: 31 August 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5497-5Published: 12 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9544-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1878-9897

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 447

  • Number of Illustrations: 314 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Hydrogeology, Structural Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Civil Engineering

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