Bandar Abbas (center of Hormozgan province) is the most important port city in the south of Iran because of its historical places, cultural, economic, social and political importance. High risk of earthquake occurrence in this city and its province indicates the necessity of surveying the seismic vulnerability of buildings. The object of this paper is collected from existing Buildings, compiled...

A multi-dimensional variable-length subband coder for prestack seismic data was presented. A 2and 3-D separable near perfect reconstruction filter bank was optimized to maximize the coding gain, assuming that the correlation properties of pre-stack seismic data can be modeled by directional dependent autoregressive processes. Identical quantization and entropy coder allocation strategies were u...

A dual structural fused system consists of replaceable ductile elements (fuses) that sustain major seismic damage and leave the primary structure (PS) virtually undamaged. The seismic performance of a fused structural system is determined by the combined behavior of the individual PS and fuse components. In order to design a feasible and economic structural fuse concept, we need a procedure to ...

Pre-seismic anomalies have the potential to indicate imminent strong earthquakes in short medium terms. However, an improved understanding of statistical significance between and is required develop operational forecasting systems. We developed a temporal integrated anomaly (TIA) method obtain trends multiparametric derived from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) product before earthquakes. A ...

Current rising energy demand/supply ratio trends are forecast to continue into the foreseeable future. As a consequence, effective and efficient seismic surveying and processing techniques are required now more than ever. Unfortunately those outside of organizations with the resources to develop their own processing and/or visualization packages, or license proprietary third-party ones, must ma...

Enclosed is WCAP-1 5614, "AP1000 Seismic and Structural Design Activities." The report outlines our proposed approach to use design acceptance criteria in the areas of seismic analyses, structural design, and piping design for an AP1000 Design Certification application. We request your review of this report as part of phase 2 of the AP1 000 pre-certification review. Please direct questions on t...

Very recently the recordings of precursory seismic electric signals (SESsf) in the island of Kōzu-shima, Japan, have been reported, and their interrelation with subsequent earthquakes was shown to be beyond chance. Almost simultaneously, the recording of SES activity in northern Greece was also reported, which was followed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in northern Greece. These facts strengthen...

[1] We report on seismic and petrological data that provide new constraints on the geological evolution of the Amerasia Basin. A seismic reflection transect across the Makarov Basin, located between the Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridges, shows a complete undisturbed sedimentary section of Mesozoic/Cenozoic age. In contrast to the Mendeleev Ridge, the margin of the Lomonosov Ridge is wide and shows...