"The main merit of the volume is to harmonize the voice of its 56 contributors, who basically all agree not to underestimate the seismic danger, anywhere in the world, and to promote more prudential models such as the NDSHA at a time when safety codes earthquakes all over the world are still anchored to obsolete and therefore dangerous systems. The hidden message of the book is to continue to study what is underground, to better prepare life on the surface." --Giulio Breglia
"The reading of this text will therefore offer food for thought to the researcher, the technician, and the enthusiast because it combines the rigorous scientific research of the sector with its applications in human environments, pausing to discuss concepts such as probability, risk and reliability that are so much in use but often little explained. This volume will be a unique opportunity for all readers, geologists, engineers or simple enthusiasts to learn about a subject that by its multidisciplinary nature is known in its many aspects only by experts." --Giovanna Vessia
"The editors of the volume Giuliano F. Panza, Vladimir G. Kossobokov, Efraim Laor and benedetto De Vivo, have done an excellent job in presenting the innovative essay of the NDSHA. The reader will find a useful handbook to clarify the advantages of a scenario-based approach for determining the seismic hazard to increase the safety of people, buildings, and infrastructures. Some parts of the methodology such as the modeling the block-and-fault structure dynamics with application to studying seismicity and the morpho-structural zoning for identifying earthquake-prone areas may be difficult to be digested by the geological community; nevertheless, it is a useful stimulus to move forward to a new paradigm for seismic hazard analysis. This is the unavoidable base for any further improvement of seismic risk reduction. In summary, this book is an excellent reference that should be readily handy on the shelf of every practicing seismologist and seismic engineer. In the hands of an experienced instructor, the book will also serve students as a great textbook." --Carlo Doglioni
1. Hazard, risks, and prediction Vladimir Kossobokov 2. Seismic hazard assessment from the perspective of disaster prevention Jens-Uwe Klugel 3. The view of a structural engineer about reliable seismic hazard assessment Paolo Rugarli 4. Disaster prediction and civil preparedness Efraim Laor and Benedetto De Vivo 5. The integration between seismology and geodesy for intermediate-term narrow-range earthquake prediction according to NDSHA Mattia Crespi, Vladimir Kossobokov, Antonella Peresan and Giuliano F. Panza 6. Modeling the block-and-fault structure dynamics with application to studying seismicity and geodynamics Alexander Soloviev 7. Morphostructural zoning for identifying earthquake-prone areas Alexander Gorshkov and Alexander Soloviev 8. Earthquake forecasting and time- dependent neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment in Italy and surroundings Antonella Peresan and Leontina Romashkova 9. Spreading NDSHA application from Italy to other areas Fabio Romanelli, Giorgio Altin and Maurizio Indirli 10. S-wave velocity pro?ling for site response evaluation in urban areas Maria Rosaria Costanzo and Concettina Nunziata 11. A user-friendly approach to NDSHA computations Franco Vaccari and Andrea Magrin 12. Recent applications of NDSHA: seismic input for high rise buildings in Egypt's New Administrative Capital Mohamed N. Elgabry, Hany M. Hassan and Hesham Hussein 13. Neodeterministic method to assess the seismic performance of water distribution networks Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Melissa De Iuliis and Sebastiano Marasco 14. Seismic hazard analysis in a historical context: experience at caltrans and elsewhere Lalliana Mualchin 15. Where there is no science - probabilistic hazard assessment in volcanological and nuclear waste settings: facts, needs, and challenges in Italy Benedetto De Vivo, Efraim Laor and Giuseppe Rolandi 16. Seismic hazard and earthquake engineering for engineering community Junbo Jia 17. Scenario-based seismic hazard analysis and its applications in the central United States Zhenming Wang, Seth N. Carpenter and Edward W. Woolery 18. NDSHA achievements in Central and South-eastern Europe Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva, Carmen Cio?an, Ivanka Paskaleva and Giuliano F. Panza 19. Application of NDSHA to historical urban areas Concettina Nunziata and Maria Rosaria Costanzo 20. Insights from neo-deterministic seismic hazard analyses in Romania Carmen Ortanza Cio?an, Elena Florinela Manea and Bogdan Felix Apostol 21. NDSHA in Bulgaria Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva, Ivanka Paskaleva and Giuliano F. Panza 22. NDSHA-based vulnerability evaluation of precode buildings in Republic of North Macedonia: Novel experiences Elena Dumova-Jovanoska and Kristina Milkova 23. Seismic characterization of Tiranae DurrëseLezha region (northwestern Albania) and analysis effort through NSHDA method Sokol Marku, Rapo Ormeni and Giuliano F. Panza 24. Regional application of the NDSHA approach for continental seismogenic sources in the Iberian Peninsula Mariano García-Fernández, Franco Vaccari, María-José Jiménez, Andrea Magrin, Fabio Romanelli and Giuliano F. Panza 25. NDSHA applied to China Yan Zhang, Lihua Fang, Fabio Romanelli,Zhifeng Ding, Shanghua Gao, Changsheng, Jiang and Zhongliang Wu 26. Application of neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment to India Imtiyaz A. Parvez 27. Neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment for Pakistan Farhana Sarwar, Franco Vaccari and Andrea Magrin 28. Neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment studies for Bangladesh Tahmeed M. Al-Hussaini, Ishika N. Chowdhury, Hasan al Faysal, Sudipta Chakraborty, Franco Vaccari, Fabio Romanelli and Andrea Magrin 29. Application of NDSHA at regional and local scale in Iran Habib Rahimi and Mehdi Rastgoo 30. Application of neodeterministic seismic hazard analysis to Sumatra Irwandi Irwandi