On 24 August 2014, the M 6.0 South Napa earthquake shook much of the San Francisco Bay area, leading to significant damage in the NapaValley. The earthquake occurred in the vicinity of the West Napa fault (122.313° W, 38.22° N, 11.3 km), a mapped structure located between the Rodger’s Creek and Green Valley faults, with nearly pure right-lateral strike-slip motion (strike 157°, dip 77°, rake –1...

Earthquake is one the most important disasters in the world. In order to save lives and building substructures of countries, more research in this field should be carried out as a matter of severity. Computer modeling and different artificial intelligence algorithms are known as applicable tools for the earthquake hazards prediction and prevention. This article tries to review the recent studie...

The use of machine learning across many fields has seen a rise in recent years, from life and physical sciences to finance and athletics. Within the physical sciences, it is just starting to see some implementation in the field of Earthquake Engineering. The objective of this paper is to implement machine learning to Earthquake Engineering data to create more literature in the field. In particu...

The object of this paper is to provide a method of cost-benefit analysis of earthquake prediction as a means of mitigation of earthquake effects. The research in earthquake prediction may or may not be successful and involves an initial cost. Earthquake prediction, if achieved, on the one hand provides society with information which allows it to take protective measures. On the other hand, each...

Today analyzing seismicity hazard urban different areas is critical and inevitable due to develop and to expand cities in seismically active zones and naturally, the hazard because the earthquake is more in the bigger cities and the necessity to consider these hazards would be increased. Expanding the cities in Iran seismically active zones caused to be necessary to analyze earthquake hazard. B...

We demonstrate that interferometric observations of the Mw6.6 Bam (Iran) earthquake on December 26, 2003 acquired by Envisat-ASAR can not only map surface displacements and constrain fault models, but can also be used for damage mapping using the coherence magnitude. The Bam earthquake was the deadliest earthquake in 2003. An estimated 30000 people were killed and 85% of the buildings in the ar...

it has been pointed out the static lateral response procedure for a base-isolated structure proposed in international building code (ibc) somewhat overestimates the seismic story force. that is why in the current paper, vertical distribution of base shear over the height of isolated structures considering higher mode effects under near field earthquakes is investigated. nonlinear behavior of is...

Abstract There is a sparse number of credible source models available from largemagnitude past earthquakes. A stochastic source-model-generation algorithm thus becomes necessary for robust risk quantification using scenario earthquakes. We present an algorithm that combines the physics of fault ruptures as imaged in laboratory earthquakes with stress estimates on the fault constrained by field ...

the field of crisis management knowledge and expertise is associated with a wide range of fields. knowledge-based crisis management is a combination of science, art and practice. iran is an earthquake-prone country. through years several earthquakes have happened in the country resulting in many human and financial losses. according to scientific standards, the first 24 hours following an earth...