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Earthquake Protection
By: Andrew Coburn , Robin SpenceeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Since the publication of the successful first edition of Earthquake Protection there have been 110 lethal earthquakes, killing 130 000 people; there have also been significant developments in the field of earthquake risk management, particularly in the modelling and analysis of risk for insurance and financial services. Furthermore, major earthquake disasters, such as the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California, the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan and the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake in Turkey have occurred. The experience and knowledge gained through these events have improved our understanding of how to manage, mitigate and work towards the prevention of similar catastrophes. The 1990s were in fact the costliest decade on record in terms of disaster management due to such seismic events, placing unprecedented pressure on the insurance industry in particular, and changing its view of earthquake protection.
Significantly revised and updated, this second edition continues to provide a comprehensive overview of how to reduce the impact of earthquakes on people and property, and implement best practice in managing the consequences of such disasters. It also includes significant coverage of the techniques of modelling earthquake catastrophe. Each chapter deals with a separate aspect of protection, and covers a wide range of economic and social conditions, drawing on the authors' considerable personal experience and with reference to real life examples.
Key features include: Recent event coverage Modern developments in the theory and practice of planning and engineering loss estimation techniques, along with new engineering techniques such as microzonation and hazard-mapping Historic buildings experience An entirely new chapter on 'Earthquakes and Finance'
This valuable book provides essential reading for earthquake and structural engineers and geoscientists, as well as insurers and loss prevention specialists, risk managers and assessors involved in managing earthquake risk, urban and regional planners, and emergency management agencies.
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| Title of Technology eBook: Earthquake Protection | |
| Release Date: 02-21-2003 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Earthquake Protection
Chapter One
Earthquakes, Disasters and Protection
1.1 Earthquake Protection: Past Failure and Present Opportunity
In spite of the huge technical achievements of the last century - which have given us skyscraper cities, fast and cheap air travel and instant global telecommunications, as well as eradicating many major diseases and providing the potential to feed our burgeoning population - over much of the world the threat of earthquakes has remained untamed. As later chapters will show, the progress we have made in reducing the global death toll from earthquakes is modest, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have become distressingly familiar with tragic media images of the total devastation of towns, villages and human lives caused by large earthquakes, for which their victims have been quite unprepared.
One possible reason for the lack of progress in saving lives from earthquakes is that although they are among our oldest enemies, it is only in the last quarter of the twentieth century that we have begun to understand how to protect ourselves against them. From time to time in our history, parts of the earth have apparently randomly been shaken violently by vast energy releases. Where these events have occurred near human settlements, the destruction has been legendary. Tales of destruction of ancient cities, like Troy in Greek mythology, and Taxila, have been attributed to the power of the earthquake. In more recent memory the cities of Messina in Italy, Tangshan in China, Tokyo and Kobe in Japan, and San Francisco in the United States have all been devastated by massive earthquakes. Th
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