Publication Date:
2021-06-21
Description:
Many regions in the world are affected by natural hazards
such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, storms,
landslides, etc., each of which can have devastating socio-
economic impacts. Among these natural events, earthquakes,
have been among the most recurrent and damaging
hazards during last few decades, resulting in large
numbers of casualties, and massive economic losses [30].
The problem of earthquake risk mitigation is faced using
different approaches, depending upon the time scale
being considered. Whilst over time scales of decades it is
of utmost importance that land use regulations and building/
infrastructure codes are continuously updated and improved,
for time scales of a few years, the main risk mitigation
actions are at the level of information and education
in order to increase individual and social community
awareness about potentially damaging hazards. Over
shorter time scales (months to hours), it would naturally
be of great benefit to society as a whole if the capability to
accurately predict the time, location and size of a potentially
catastrophic natural event were available. However,
due to the great complexity of the natural processes of concern,
such predictions are currently not possible.
On the other hand, on very short time scales (seconds
to minutes), new strategies for earthquake risk mitigation
are being conceived and are under development worldwide,
based on real-time information about natural events
that is provided by advanced monitoring infrastructures,
denoted as “early warning systems”.
Description:
Published
Description:
2395-2421
Description:
5.2. TTC - Banche dati di sismologia strumentale
Description:
reserved
Keywords:
EarlyWarning System
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Southern Italy
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04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.11. Seismic risk
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
book chapter
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