How to survive earthquakes: the example of Norcia

In this paper lessons are extracted from the comparison between the very different consequences that similar earthquakes had on the neighbouring towns of Norcia and Amatrice during the 2016 seismic crisis of central Italy. It was found that the differences in damage were essentially due to the stren...

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Main Authors: Lopes, M., Mota de Sà, Francisco, Ferreira, Monica A., Oliveira, Carlos Sousa, Oliveira, C.F., Meroni, Fabrizio, Squarcina, Thea, Musacchio, Gemma
Other Authors: Instituto Superior Técnico, Dept of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, CEris, Lisboa, Portugal, Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Milano, Milano, Italia, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione AC, Roma, Italia
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
earthquake
damage
strengthening
04.06.11. Seismic risk
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2122/10955
https://icesd.hi.is/
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Summary:In this paper lessons are extracted from the comparison between the very different consequences that similar earthquakes had on the neighbouring towns of Norcia and Amatrice during the 2016 seismic crisis of central Italy. It was found that the differences in damage were essentially due to the strengthening of most houses in Norcia done during the previous decades. This is also likely to lead to a much faster recover of the economy and livelihood in Norcia, as Amatrice needs to be entirely rebuilt. Published Reykjavik, Iceland 4T. Sismologia, geofisica e geologia per l'ingegneria sismica

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