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Selecting Safe Building Sites in Seismically Active Areas of Developing Countries
(INTERTECT, 1975)
Loss of life and property as a result of earthquakes can be significantly reduced through appropriate design and construction of structures on relatively safe sites. Structural-seismic factors, topographic factors, and ...
Siting of Adobe Structures in Earthquake Prone Areas
Adobe and mud structures, used widely for housing in earthquake prone areas throughout the world, will fail, even in the presence of good design and workmanship, if they are built on poor sites. Structural and seismic ...
Sitting Structures in Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Earthquake Disaster Reconstruction
Earthquake disasters leave a country or region with disrupted communications and food supply lines and damaged water supplies, roads, bridges, dwellings, and other structures. The need for rapid engineering and reconstruction ...
Post-Disaster Structure Siting in Rural Guatemala following the 4 February Earthquake
(INTERTECT, 1976)
The. Guatemalan earthquake of 4 February 1976 and its associated aftershocks, especially that qf 6 February , caused extensive damage in a large part of the Central Highlands of Guatemala. Nearly all structures in many ...