Earthquake Microzoning

by Roca, Antoni; Oliveira, Carlos Sousa

• ISBN13: 9783764366520
• ISBN10: 3764366524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Birkhauser

Summary

In many past and recent earthquakes it has been shown that the local conditions and, in particular, the local geology have a great influence on the observed seismic ground motion and, consequently, on the damage distribution in housing, industrial stock, and life-lines. Seismic microzoning is the usual procedure to have these local effects taken into account for engineering design and land-use planning, being a useful tool for earthquake risk mitigation. This volume presents a collection of papers mainly originated from a workshop on Seismic Microzoning, organized during the 23rd General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) in Nice, France in April 1998. The workshop dealt with various geophysical tools for analysing the effects of the local soils of subsurface geology on seismic ground motion, namely the methods using experimental data such as microtremors, and the theoretical/numerical 1-D and 2-D modelling methods. Additional contributions discussing techniques for characterising soil properties, microzoning applications to several urban areas, and others were added to the volume to broaden this important topic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Earthquake Microzoning	2291	(4)
A. Roca
C. Oliveira
Probabilistic Microzonation of Urban Territories: A Case of Tashkent City	2295	(18)
V. Yu. Sokolov
Y. K. Chernov
Active Tectonics and Seismic Zonation of the Urban Area of Florence, Italy	2313	(20)
M. Boccaletti
G. Corti
P. Gasperini
L. Piccardi
G. Vannucci
S. Clemente
1-D Theoretical Modeling for Site Effect Estimations in Thessaloniki: Comparison with Observations	2333	(16)
P. Triantafyllidis
P. M. Hatzidimitriou
P. Suhadolc
Site Effects and Design Provisions: The Case of Euroseistest	2349	(20)
K. Makra
D. Raptakis
F. J. Chavez-Garcia
K. Pitilakis
2-D Modeling of Site Effects Along the EURO-SEISTEST Array (Volvi Graben, Greece)	2369	(20)
F. Marrara
P. Suhadolc
Realistic Modeling of Seismic Input in Urban Areas: A UNESCO-IUGSIGCP Project	2389	(18)
G. F. Panza
F. Vaccari
F. Romanelli
Vrancea Source Influence on Local Seismic Response in Bucharest	2407	(24)
C. L. Moldoveanu
G. F. Panza
A 2-D Sensitivity Study of the Dynamic Behavior of a Volcanic Hill in the Azores Islands: Comparison with 1-D and 3-D Models	2431	(20)
M. V. Sincraian
C. S. Oliveira
A Numerical Experiment on the Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio in Flat Sedimentary Basins	2451	(12)
F. Luzon
Z. Al Yuncha
F. J. Sanchez-Sesma
C. Ortiz-Aleman
Comparative Study of Microtremor Analysis Methods	2463	(18)
D. Diagourtas
A. Tzanis
K. Makropoulos
Surface Soil Effects Study Using Short-period Microtremor Observations in Almeria City, Southern Spain	2481	(18)
M. Navarro
T. Enomoto
F. J. Sanchez
I. Matsuda
T. Iwatate
A. M. Posadas
F. Luzon
F. Vidal
K. Seo
Preliminary Map of Soil's Predominant Periods in Barcelona Using Microtremors	2499	(14)
A. Alfaro
L. G. Pujades
X. Goula
T. Susagna
M. Navarro
J. Sanchez
J. A. Canas
Caracas, Venezuela, Site Effect Determination with Microtremors	2513	(12)
A.-M. Duval
S. Vidal
J.-P. Meneroud
A. Singer
F. De Santis
C. Ramos
G. Romero
R. Rodriguez
A. Pernia
N. Reyes
C. Griman
Microtremor Measurements for the Microzonation of Dinar	2525	(18)
A. M. Ansal
R. Iyisan
H. Gullu
Site Effect Study in Urban Area: Experimental Results in Grenoble (France)	2543	(16)
B. LeBrun
D. Hatzfeld
P. Y. Bard
Seismic Zonation of Barcelona Based on Numerical Simulation of Site Effects	2559	(20)
J. Cid
T. Susagna
X. Goula
L. Chavarria
S. Figueras
J. Fleta
A. Casas
A. Roca
Microzonations of Lisbon: 1-D Theoretical Approach	2579	(18)
P. Teves-Costa
I. M. Almeida
P. L. Silva
Thessaloniki's Detailed Microzoning: Subsurface Structure as Basis for Site Response Analysis	2597	(38)
A. Anastasiadis
D. Raptakis
K. Pitilakis
An Empirical Method to Assess the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Using the HVSR Technique	2635
M. Mucciarelli
P. Contri
G. Monachesi
G. Calvano
M. Gallipoli