Critical Infrastructure (CI) provides essential goods and services for modern society ; they are highly integrated and have growing mutual dependencies. Recent major earthquakes (e.g., the Tohoku 2011 earthquake) have shown that cascading failures of CI have the potential for multi-infrastructure collapse and widespread societal and economic consequences. Moving towards a safer and more resilient society requires improved and standardised tools for hazard assessment of low probability/ (...)

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Modelling seismicity and ground motion is a critical component of engineering seismology and seismic hazard and risk assessment. In the past, the modelling and assessment of ground motion in terms of source characterisation, wave propagation, and site effects has focussed on low-probability tectonic events (e.g., EU SHARE project). Such events have clear impact for risk in urban areas ; however, the increasing demand for energy and environmental protection means that new technologies are (...)

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Inelastic linear and non-linear soil behaviour - we will develop and test new methods to measure the amplification and damping of seismic waves, and non-linear soil behaviour in sedimentary basins. Non-invasive active and passive seismic methods are used with the aim of mapping the characteristics of the soil cover over large areas. The calibration of advanced rheological models is performed using in-situ measurements. We will develop strategies to map soil responses over large areas (...)

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Modelling responses of a city to seismic ground motion is a critical component of engineering seismology and seismic hazard and risk assessments. The ground-motion prediction provided by WP1 and WP2 for LPHC events and induced seismicity will be tested in order to evaluate the potential danger from the ground motion with respect to the building response and the damage.
Development of testing procedures for comparing ground-motion prediction models (e.g., IPEs, GMPEs) will be proposed (...)

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