This paper presents the results of an analysis of data on mortality in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck the central Italian city and province of L’Aquila during the night of 6 April 2009. The aim is to create a profile of the deaths in terms of age, gender, location, behaviour during the tremors, and other aspects. This could help predict the pattern of casualties and priorities for pro...

For a wide range of conditions, earthquake nucleation zones 6 on rate-and state-dependent faults that obey either of the popular state evo-7 lution laws expand as they accelerate. Under the " slip " evolution law, which 8 experiments show to be the more relevant law for nucleation, this expansion 9 takes the form of a unidirectional slip pulse. In numerical simulations these 10 pulses often ten...

The losses to supply chains from disasters such as the Tohuku earthquake in Japan and Thai floods in 2011 arise not only through direct damage at firms, but also from the interruption of normal operations due to lack of supply; that is, due to disruption cascades from suppliers in the adjacent tiers and beyond. To curtail such losses, firms can make ex ante investments in mitigation and recover...

– Abstract Wavelets have a wide range of useful functions that permit them to effectively treat problems such as data compression, scale-localization analysis, feature extraction, visualization, statistics, numerical simulation, and communication. We discuss their features and their use in an integrated manner to handle largescale problems in earthquake physics and other nonlinear problems in t...

introduction natural hazards as recurring phenomenon have always existed in human life and will in the future, too. nowadays natural hazards occur throughout the world, but their impacts have been increasing and are generally much greater in developing countries than in developed ones. earthquake is a kind of natural hazard that has the most damages for humankind. earthquakes pose inevitable ri...

This review aims to investigate the recent advancements in performance of earthquake-damaged reinforced concrete structures subjected fire loading and damages that are induced by structural elements with damage due seismic loads. The first part paper provides a general understanding Post-Earthquake Fire (PEF) effect on structures, some statistics regarding previous earthquake casualties amounts...

As a matter of fact, the estimated loss of the human life caused by the earthquake is a crucial issue. This estimate helped to administrators in planning for the preventive measures or the crisis management after the earthquake. In this article, we represented a new model for measuring the loss of human life utilizing the self-organizing competitive neural networks. In the latest model, the neu...

Determining the timing of paleoearthquakes is a central goal of paleoseismology and serves as an important input to seismic hazard evaluations. Herein, we develop a Bayesian statistical method for refining the ages of strata and earthquakes and calculating the recurrence of earthquakes based on data from paleoseismic excavations. Our work extends previous paleoseismic Bayesian modeling by simul...

construction of asphaltic core dams is a relatively novel method especially in iran. iran is located in a region with high seismicity risk. therefore, many researchers have focused on the behavior of such types of dams under earthquake loading. in this research, the behavior of asphaltic core rockfill dams (acrd) has been studied under earthquake loading using nonlinear dynamic analysis method ...

This paper presents a parallel nonlinear finite element program, ParCYCLIC, which is designed for the analysis of cyclic seismically-induced liquefaction problems. Key elements of the computational strategy employed in ParCYCLIC include the deployment of an automatic domain decomposer, the use of the multilevel nested dissection algorithm for the ordering of finite element nodes, and the develo...