The seismic risk evaluation usually works with a fragmented concept of risk, which depends
on the scientific discipline in charge of the assessment. To achieve an effective performance …

Risk has been defined, for management purposes, as the potential economic, social and
environmental consequences of hazardous events that may occur in a specified period of …

Usually the seismic risk evaluation involves only the estimation of the expected physical
damage, casualties or economic losses. This article corresponds to a holistic approach for …

Earthquakes pose a predominant risk to cities in seismically prone areas. This paper
addresses the need to mitigate the exposure of cities to seismic risk in general and to …

A great amount of information is necessary to assess the risk of urban natural hazards.
However, there is not enough information in many cases. If we use pure probabilistic …

A hierarchical family of Damage Probability Matrices (DPM) has been derived in this paper
from the ones implicitly contained in the EMS-98 Macroseismic Scale for 6 vulnerability …

The most relevant seismic vulnerability and risk analysis methods are discussed and
compared in this article using, as a pilot urban area, the city of Barcelona, Spain, where risk …

The evaluation of the seismic risk of built-up areas is associated to the level of earthquake
hazard, building vulnerability and level of exposure. Within this holistic approach that …

Abstract The Northern region of Thailand has been considered as one of the seismic risk
zones. However, most existing buildings in the area had been designed and constructed …

Seismic resilience of new building has improved with the implementation of recent design
codes and stringent quality of construction. However, vulnerability of existing buildings is …