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Volcans. --- Volcanoes. --- Séismes. --- Earthquakes.

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Constructions --- Construction parasismique --- Effets des séismes

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This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction.This is the only volume to consider the earthquake and volcanic histories of the Azores across the whole archipelago and is based, not only on contemporary published research, but also on the detailed study of archival source materials. The authors seek to show how extreme environmental events, as expressed through eruptions, earthquakes and related processes operating in the past may be considered using both complementary scientific and social scientific perspectives in order to reveal the ways in which Azorean society has been shaped by both an isolated location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the ever present threat of environmental uncertainty. Chapter 2, which analyses in depth the geology and tectonics of the islands is of more specialist interest, but technical terms are fully explained so as to widen the accessibility of this material.The audience for this volume includes all those who are interested in the geology, geography, history and hazard responses in the Azores. It is written, not just for the educated general reader, but for the specialist earth scientist and hazard researcher.

Earthquakes. --- Séismes --- Volcanoes. --- Volcans --- Azores --- Açores. --- History.

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This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures. The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena; friction of phyllosilicates, and at high sliding velocities; fault structures; relative roles of strong and seismogenic versus weak and creeping faults; dynamic triggering of earthquakes; oceanic earthquakes; megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones; deep earthquakes; and new observations of earthquake precursory phenomena.

Seismology. --- Earthquakes. --- Faults (Geology) --- Sismologie. --- Séismes. --- Failles (géologie)

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"Contrairement aux traités et ouvrages scientifiques complexes, cet ouvrage offre, en termes simples, une vision globale de la construction parasismique des bâtiments et des solutions à adopter, y compris pour la mise à niveau des bâtiments existants. Au moyen de nombreuses illustrations et photographies, cet ouvrage pédagogique présente les aspects fondamentaux de la construction parasismique en : abordant la construction parasismique au stade de la conception et analysant les effets des choix retenus à ce stade du projet lors d'un séisme ; présentant les incidences du site en cas de séisme (effets de site lithologique et topographique) ainsi que les phénomènes que celui-ci peut engendrer sur les sols (liquéfaction, glissement et éboulement) ; détaillant les dispositions parasismiques à mettre en oeuvre en fonction des systèmes constructifs (voiles, ossature poteaux-poutres, structure poteaux-dalles, etc.) et des matériaux (maçonnerie, béton armé, bois, acier) retenus ; exposant les principes des différentes méthodes de calcul des charges sismiques (analyse spectrale, analyse chronologique non linéaire, analyse en poussée progressive) ; synthétisant la réglementation parasismique applicable. Enfin, les différentes thématiques abordées sont mises en perspective au travers d'exemples réels et études de cas qui analysent les effets des séismes sur des bâtiments tant historiques que contemporains. Véritable introduction à l'ingénierie parasismique, ce livre s'adresse au non-spécialiste désireux de s'initier et comprendre le fonctionnement de la construction parasismique, sans avoir besoin d'en maîtriser les détails." [Quatrième de couverture]

Earthquake resistant design. --- Buildings --- Construction parasismique --- Constructions --- Earthquake effects. --- Effets des séismes