Urban disaster-prevention strategies using macroseismic fields and fault sources

• Main Authors: Zonno, G., Azzaro, R., Bianco, F., Cusano, P., D'Amico, Sebastiano, D’Amico, V., Falsaperla, S., Galluzzo, D., Langer, H., Meroni, F., Musacchio, G., Nave, R., Sansivero, F., Scarfì, L., Rotondi, R., Brambilla, C., Varini, E., Oliveira, C. S., Ferreira, M. A., Lopes, M., Mota de Sá, F., Nunes, J. C., Carvalho, A., Sousa, M. L., Raposo, S., Garcia-Fernandez, M., Beltran, A., Jenni, J., Jimenez, M. J., Sigbjornsson, R., Bernhardsdottir, A., Olafsson, S., Rupakhety, R., Sigurdsson, S. U., Thorvaldsdottir, S., Albarello, D., 15 WCEE - The Fifteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Portuguesa de Engenharia Sismica 2012
• Subjects: Emergency management; Earthquake hazard analysis; Earthquake prediction; Earthquake resistant design; Etna; Iceland
• Online Access: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/96682

This contribution presents the general framework of the European project UPStrat-MAFA "Urban disaster Prevention Strategies using MAcroseismic Fields and FAult Sources" and its ongoing activities. A unique probabilistic procedure is being used for seismic hazard evaluation, using both macr...