Earthquake Risk Reduction
Chapter One
Earthquake Risk Reduction
1.1 Introduction
Earthquake risk reduction is a complex affair involving many people of many vocations,
much information, many opinions and many decisions and actions. The relationships
between the contributing sets of information and people is illustrated schematically
by the flowchart given in Figure 1.1. Considering that this diagram is necessarily
simplified, it is clear that managing the changes needed to reduce earthquake risk is
a challenging task in which all of the people in any given region are explicitly or
implicitly involved.
1.2 Earthquake Risk and Hazard
In normal English usage the work risk means exposure to the chance of injury or loss.
It is noted that the word hazard is almost synonymous with risk, and the two words
are used in the risk literature with subtle variations which can be confusing.
Fortunately, an authoritative attempt has been made to overcome this difficulty
through the publication by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute' ... read full excerpt from Earthquake Risk Reduction ebook
