Cities in the developing world are facing outstanding economic and human losses caused
by natural hazards such as earthquakes, and the amount of losses is affected by the quality …

Models capable of estimating losses in future earthquakes are of fundamental importance
for emergency planners and for the insurance and reinsurance industries. One of the main …

The lack of empirical data regarding earthquake damage or losses has propelled the
development of dozens of analytical methodologies for the derivation of fragility and …

The paper analyses the most recent research carried out in Italy concerning the seismic
behaviour of historic buildings. The last Umbria (Italy) earthquake in 1997 was an interesting …

Seismic risk assessment at the territorial level is now widely recognised as essential for
countries with intense seismic activity, such as Italy. Academia is called to give its …

Observations after strong earthquakes show that out-of-plane failure of unreinforced
masonry elements probably constitutes the most serious life-safety hazard for this type of …

Brought to light by the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) earthquake for the first time, the theme of
damage patterns of masonry buildings with structural interventions became urgent again in …

The assessment of the seismic behaviour of historic residential buildings and the estimation
of their possible losses in the event of an earthquake, is a must for defining strategic …

A simplified pushover-based earthquake loss assessment (SP-BELA) method, which was
originally developed to study the vulnerability of reinforced concrete buildings has been …

More than the 60% of the Italian residential building stock had already been built by 1974,
when seismic codes were enforced on a minimal part of the country. Unreinforced masonry …