Article history: The great Lisbon earthquake Received 1 February 2008 Received in revised form 16 July 2008 Accepted 21 October 2008

A probabilistic method that takes account of the ordinal character of the MSK Scale has been adapted to generate a 1755 seismic intensity map for the Iberian Peninsula. Statistical models are employed to estimate isoseismals and to compute standard error uncertainties. The output includes intensity maps, estimates of the effects associated with each intensity level, and estimates of the distrib...

Fiona Timmins 1,*,†, Wilfred McSherry 2,3,4,†, Colm OBoyle 1,†, Vivienne Brady 1,† and Sílvia Caldeira 5,† 1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; [email protected] (C.O.B); [email protected] (V.B.) 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Staffordshire University, Blackheath Lane, Stafford, ST18 0AD, UK; [email protected] 3 The Shrewsbury and Telfo...

As many European countries, the Portuguese territory is a region of moderate seismicity, and large part its building stock includes reinforced concrete (RC) buildings built before introduction modern seismic codes (<1983s). Currently, Lisbon composed 45% RC buildings, which 71% were in such construction period. Being designed to only sustain gravitational loads without adequate lateral load ...

In spite of the significant number studies focused on 1755 earthquake and tsunami, there are still many unknowns regarding this event in Lisbon, Portugal. Thus, research authors compiled historical documents, including some that had never been analyzed, complemented with a field survey tsunami numerical modeling at civil parish Santo Estevão, Lisbon. It was possible to identify 13 buildings, th...

Early, pre-code, reinforced concrete structures present undetermined resistance to earthquakes. This situation is particularly unacceptable in the case of essential facilities, such as healthcare structures. Amongst these, the Santa Maria Hospital – finished in 1953 with a total area of 120,000 m – in Lisbon, was designed without explicit consideration for earthquake loading. Given the crucial ...