Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)
Contributors: Serguei Balassanian (Editor); Armando Cisternas (Editor); Mikael Melkumyan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780792363903
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Research methods: general; Social impact of disasters; Seismology; Engineering - Civil; Science; Science/Mathematics; Geophysics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Science / Geology; Congresses; Earthquake Engineering; Earthquake hazard analysis; Hazard mitigation
First sentence: The Spitak destructive earthquake (M=7.0) occurred in December, 1988 in Armenia has shook entire world by enormous scale of destructions and casualties, when 25.000 people died, over 20.000 were injured, 515.000 became homeless, all the large settlements of the Northern part of Armenia was practically destroyed, which is not turning out well to be recovered till now.