Earthquake Risk and Insurance

2006 ◽  
pp. 385-402
Author(s):  
R. Spence ◽  
A. Coburn
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Risk

After the Earth Quakes

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Elizabeth Hough ◽  
Roger G. Bilham
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Major Earthquake ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Elastic Rebound ◽  
Future Earthquake ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Historic Earthquakes ◽  
Earthquake Science

Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.

scholarly journals Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Pattern Recognition of Synthetical Complete Earthquake Catalog

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4905
Author(s):  
Chen Cao ◽  
Xiangbin Wu ◽  
Lizhi Yang ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Xianying Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Earthquake Activity ◽  
Earthquake Catalog ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Earthquake Migration ◽  
Long Short Term Memory

Exploring the spatiotemporal distribution of earthquake activity, especially earthquake migration of fault systems, can greatly to understand the basic mechanics of earthquakes and the assessment of earthquake risk. By establishing a three-dimensional strike-slip fault model, to derive the stress response and fault slip along the fault under regional stress conditions. Our study helps to create a long-term, complete earthquake catalog. We modelled Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks for pattern recognition of the synthetical earthquake catalog. The performance of the models was compared using the mean-square error (MSE). Our results showed clearly the application of LSTM showed a meaningful result of 0.08% in the MSE values. Our best model can predict the time and magnitude of the earthquakes with a magnitude greater than Mw = 6.5 with a similar clustering period. These results showed conclusively that applying LSTM in a spatiotemporal series prediction provides a potential application in the study of earthquake mechanics and forecasting of major earthquake events.

Hysteresis effect on earthquake risk assessment of moment resisting frame structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 112532
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Huang ◽  
Liping Cai ◽  
Yashica Pandey ◽  
Yong Tao ◽  
William Telone
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Hysteresis Effect ◽  
Frame Structures ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Moment Resisting Frame ◽  
Moment Resisting ◽  
Earthquake Risk Assessment

scholarly journals Earthquake Risk Embedded in Property Prices: Evidence from Five Japanese Cities*

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Masako Ikefuji ◽  
Roger J. A. Laeven ◽  
Jan R. Magnus ◽  
Yuan Yue
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Property Prices

scholarly journals INNOVATIONS in earthquake risk reduction for resilience: RECENT advances and challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 102267
Author(s):  
Fabio Freddi ◽  
Carmine Galasso ◽  
Gemma Cremen ◽  
Andrea Dall’Asta ◽  
Luigi Di Sarno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Recent Advances

Mapping Earthquake Risk of the World

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Li ◽  
Zhenhua Zou ◽  
Guodong Xu ◽  
Peijun Shi
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
The World

Reducing Earthquake Risk

Science ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 341 (6150) ◽  
pp. 1070-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Risk
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