After a disaster, ascertaining the operational state of extensive infrastructures and building
clusters on a regional scale is critical for rapid decision-making and initial response. In this …

Urban strategic planning and urban vulnerability assessment have increasingly become
important issues in both policy agenda and academia. However, a comprehensive review of …

Within the 2019–2021 research agreement between the Civil Protection Department (DPC)
and the Network of University Laboratories for Earthquake Engineering (ReLUIS), the work …

The paper discusses the effect of the soil–foundation–structure interaction on the seismic
assessment of the tallest monumental tower in Napoli under the historical earthquake which …

This paper has evaluated the seismic capacity of some structural models which represent
real RC existing buildings designed to gravity loads only, through non-linear dynamic …

Macroseismic intensity data are an important source to learn from historical earthquakes.
Nevertheless, this data needs to be converted into more suitable intensity measures to be …

Horizontal acceleration and velocity are considered the most important parameters in
determining damage potential to buildings during the paroxysmal energy dissipation of an …

The recent medium and strong-intensity earthquakes have caused high economic losses
and have highlighted a low resilience of communities. The former are due to the high …

The rapid availability of reliable damage statistics, after the occurrence of a major
earthquake, is an essential mitigation strategy to drive and support emergency intervention …

This paper outlines the response of the healthcare system in the area mainly affected by the
2012 Emilia earthquake by drawing on specific surveys and information from local health …