Engineering Seismology

The lesson of Engineering Seismology presents the following subjects dealing with the estimation of earthquake hazard and loss assessment.

Presentation of regional seismicity, fault description and earthquake source mechanism.

Characteristics and effects of near field ground motions.

New generation attenuation relationships.

Evaluation of seismic hazard.

Site effects on ground motion.

Artificial accelerograms and simulation of near field pulses.

Selection of seismic records for design.

Review of earthquake loss assessment methods.

Presentation of loss assessment HAZUS methodology.

Displacement based loss assessment methods.