Seminar 29.10.2014. u 13:15

ABSTRACT: In the past five years, four moderate magnitude earthquakes caused substantial economic damage and a death toll from dozens to hundreds of casualties each. Namely, they are the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Italy; the 2010 Lorca earthquake, Spain; the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand; the 2012 Emilia earthquake, Italy. All of them happened in densely populated, industrialised area previously subjected to seismic classification.
There were debates following each of those events about the reliability of seismic hazard studies, the implementation of site effects in seismic codes and about the limit of damage that is acceptable by designers but unacceptable (or misunderstood) by population. I had the opportunity, with colleagues of different research groups, to perform field studies in all these areas, noting similarity and differences. This paper tries to summarise the role of the difference between what we expected to happen, thanks to more or less simplified models, and what happened in reality. We all accept that models are a need to simplify theories and make them useful to practitioners, but there is a threshold of disagreement between models and reality that must not be trespassed.

Pozivaju se studenti, apsolventi i svi zainteresirani da prisustvuju predavanju, koje će se održati u predavaoni br. 2 Geofizičkog odsjeka PMF-a, Horvatovac 95, Zagreb. Studentima 2. godine diplomskog sveučilišnog studija fizika - geofizika je prisustvovanje predavanjima u sklopu Geofizičkog seminara obavezno.