Seismic Damage Analysis of Large-Span Tied-Arch Bridge with Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes Subjected to Near-Fault Ground Motion by Yingzhi Xia, Jiawei Liu, Hui Li, Guoping Hu

“…The results indicated that the probability of damage caused by near-fault earthquakes is significantly higher than that by non-near-fault ground motions, and velocity pulses may cause more severe damages to certain components of the bridge during lower-intensity ground motions at certain excitation angles. …”
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Assessment of variations in shear strain energy induced by fault coseismic slip in deep longwall mining by Yatao Li, Xuehong Gao

“…Abstract Shear strain energy is a pivotal physical quantity in the occurrence of earthquakes and rockbursts during deep mining operations. …”
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Optimal Location of Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers in Regular and Irregular Tall Steel Buildings Plan by Mohsen Khazaei, Reza Vahdani, Ali Kheyroddin

“…Tuned mass dampers are one of the most common devices for the passive control of structures subjected to earthquakes. The structure of these dampers consists of three main parameters: mass, damping, and stiffness. …”
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Precision Augmentation of Medical Surge Capacity for Disaster Response by Weifeng Shen, Libing Jiang, Xiaojun He

“…In recent years, serious injuries associated with extreme climate, earthquakes, terrorism, and other natural and man-made disasters have occurred frequently throughout the world. …”
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Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure of the Assam Valley Region, NE India: A Review of Geophysical Findings by Ilya Lozovsky, Ivan Varentsov, Devesh Walia

“…The north–south convergence along the Indo-Tibetan Himalayan Ranges and the east–west subduction within the Indo-Burma Ranges create a complex stress regime, resulting in significant seismic activity and a history of great/large earthquakes. The region’s intricate strain patterns, active faults, and potential seismic gaps underscore the need for detailed subsurface studies to effectively assess seismic hazards and impending seismicity. …”
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Multi-hazard systems approach to overcome multi-hazard disaster in the northern coastal region of central jawa province by Muktiali Mohammad, Hadi Sudharto P., Purnaweni Hartuti

“…There are 21 types of natural disasters in the high category, such as floods, flash floods, extreme weather, extreme waves and abrasion, earthquakes, drought, several volcanic eruptions, liquefaction, tsunamis and landslides. …”
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Tectonic stress of the southeastern part of the Gorny Altai by @Marinin, Anton V., Sim, Lydia A.

“…Such variations in the stress field characteristics are noted not only for paleostress inversion but also for the changes occurring as a result of the development of modern seismic processes and related earthquakes in this seismically active region of the Gorny Altai.…”
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Frictional Characteristics of Granite Fault under Imposed Dynamic Normal Disturbance Loads by Guojian Cui, Chuanqing Zhang, Qiming Xie

“…Fault activation induced by dynamic normal disturbance loads resulting from activities such as blasting, excavation, and earthquakes has the potential to trigger significant geological disasters, such as rock bursts, posing a threat to the stability and safety of rock engineering projects. …”
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Experimental Study on the Seismic Performance of a Partition Damped Wall-Filled Frame Structure by Shuainan Zhai, Zuyin Zou, Zhanyuan Zhu, Zixing Zhang, Wei Liang, Xuanhao Cheng, Shuzhen Chang

“…In the past, earthquakes have caused significant damage to traditional masonry filler wall frame structures. …”
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Ionospheric Disturbances Recorded by DEMETER Satellite over Active Volcanoes: From August 2004 to December 2010 by Jacques Zlotnicki, Feng Li, Michel Parrot

“…They are distributed in 5 types, similarly to the ones observed above impeding earthquakes. The two main types are electrostatic turbulence (type 1, 23.4%) and electromagnetic emissions (type 2, 69.5%). …”
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Development of Gas Safety Management System for Smart-Home Services by Gyoutae Park, Geunjun Lyu, Youngdo Jo, Jaheon Gu, Jongbu Eun, Hiesik Kim

“…Our system configuration consists of an automatic extinguishing system, detectors, a wall-pad, and a microcomputer controlled micom gas meter to monitor gas flow and pressure as well as the occurrence of earthquakes. The automatic fire-extinguishing system checks for both combustible gaseous leaks and monitors the environmental temperature, while the detector array measures smoke and CO gas concentrations. …”
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Structural Safety Analysis Based on Seismic Service Conditions for Butterfly Valves in a Nuclear Power Plant by Sang-Uk Han, Dae-Gyun Ahn, Myeong-Gon Lee, Kwon-Hee Lee, Seung-Ho Han

“…The structural integrity of valves that are used to control cooling waters in the primary coolant loop that prevents boiling within the reactor in a nuclear power plant must be capable of withstanding earthquakes or other dangerous situations. In this study, numerical analyses using a finite element method, that is, static and dynamic analyses according to the rigid or flexible characteristics of the dynamic properties of a 200A butterfly valve, were performed according to the KEPIC MFA. …”
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Application of Microbial Biopolymers as an Alternative Construction Binder for Earth Buildings in Underdeveloped Countries by Ilhan Chang, Minkyung Jeon, Gye-Chun Cho

“…However, these buildings are not durable or resistant against earthquakes and floods, and this amplifies their potential harm to humans. …”
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Nonlinear Behavior Study of Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams Subjected to the Effect of Wind Loading by Sarah Bashour, Bassam Hwaija, Fadwa Issa

“…For seismic design of such buildings, performance-based design has been commonly used in regions with strong earthquakes for its ability to achieve economical and safe design, however the use of performance-based wind design (PBWD), which permits nonlinear response of ductile elements at specific locations under wind loads is still hindered due to the lack of information regarding the performance of these elements. …”
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Effect of Prior Cyclic Loading on Triaxial Compression Strength of Sliding Zone Soil of the Huangtupo Landslide by Qiong Chen, Deshan Cui, Yu Chen, Xianyu Tao, Wei Xiang

“…Earthquakes or cyclic loadings cause significant changes in the strength characteristics of soil. …”
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Seismic Performance and Mechanical Mechanism of Steel-Enhanced Damping Concrete Core Wall with Concealed Steel Plate Bracings under Oblique Loading by Zhangqi Hu, Taohua Chen, Mengfu Wang, Weirong Lu, Ran He

“…This article focuses on the seismic performance and mechanical mechanisms of core walls under biaxial earthquakes. Through the oblique loading test (biaxial loading test) on one 1/6 scale steel-enhanced damping concrete core wall with steel plate bracings, the failure patterns, the load-bearing capacities, the yield mechanisms, and the strain distributions, etc. were investigated. …”
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Shaking Table Tests for Seismic Response of Oblique Overlapped Tunnel by Hao Lei, Honggang Wu, Tianwen Lai

“…These results help us better understand the features of the dynamic responses and also provide evidence to reinforce the overlapped tunnels against earthquakes.…”
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Low-Cost Solution for Assessment of Urban Flash Flood Impacts Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Images and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Case Study of Ras Ghareb City, Egypt by Mohammed Sadek, Xuxiang Li

“…Natural hazards are indeed counted as the most critical challenges facing our world, represented in floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and forest fires. …”
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Benefits of Multi-Terminal HVdc Under Extreme Conditions via Production Cost Modeling Analyses by Quan Nguyen, Hongyan Li, Pavel Etingov, Marcelo Elizondo, Jinxiang Zhu, Xinda Ke

“…System operators rely on system flexibility to handle unexpected reliability and resilience events, ranging from excessive resource forecast errors to extreme events like heatwaves, earthquakes, and cyberattacks. This paper provides a production cost modeling (PCM) methodology to quantify contributions to system flexibility and economic benefits by controllable HVdc and multi-terminal HVdc (MTdc) transmission systems. …”
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Investigating Cyclic and Pushover Performance of Different Metallic Yielding Dampers by Ali Mohammad Rousta, Sohrab Shoja, Masoud Amin Safaei Ardakani

“…One of the most widely used and applicable solutions for limiting the damages of earthquakes to steel structures is using Metallic Yielding Dampers as a type of passive devices to dissipate the received energy. …”
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