Increasing Seismic Safety by Combining Engineering Technologies and Seismological Data

The current state-of-the-art allows seismologists to give statistical estimates of the probability of a large earthquake striking a given region, identifying the areas in which the seismic hazard is the highest. However, the usefulness of these estimates is limited, without information about local subsoil conditions and the vulnerability of buildings. Identifying the sites where a local amplification of seismic shaking will occur, and identifying the buildings that will be the weakest under...