Seismic Ground Motion in Large Urban Areas / edited by Giuliano F. Panza, Ivanka Paskaleva, Concettina Nunziata.

The accelerated, and often uncontrolled, growth of the cities has contributed to the ecological transformation of their immediate surroundings. Factors contributing to the urban vulnerability include: lowering or rising of the water table, subsidence, loss of bearing capacity of soil foundations and...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Panza, Giuliano F.
Other Authors:	Paskaleva, Ivanka, Nunziata, Concettina
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2004.
Series:	Pageoph topical volumes.
Subjects:	Earthquake hazard analysis. Earthquake engineering.