Situated in an active tectonic region, Santiago de Chile, the country's capital with more than
six million inhabitants, faces tremendous earthquake risk. Macroseismic data for the 1985 …

OpenHVSR is a computer program developed in the Matlab environment, designed for the
simultaneous modeling and inversion of large Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR …

The Bovec basin, which is filled with glacial and fluvial sediments, has recently been struck
by two strong earthquakes (1998 and 2004) which caused extensive damage (VII–VIII EMS …

During the 2002 seismic sequence in Molise (Italy), the town of Bonefro suffered moderate
damage (I MCS= VII) except for two reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. These buildings are …

The seismic vulnerability index (K g) is a parameter that depends on the dynamic properties
of soil. With this parameter, it is possible to evaluate the vulnerability of a point-based site …

The town of Kobarid is located in one of three areas with the highest seismic hazard in
Slovenia. It was hit by several 1976–1977 Friuli sequence earthquakes and recently by the …

Abstract The Ljubljana Moor basin is characterized by moderate bedrock topography and
thicknesses of Quaternary lacustrine and fluvial sediments ranging from 0 to 200 m. More …

The city of Ljubljana is located in one of the three areas with the highest seismic hazard in
Slovenia, and it is also the most densely populated. Site effects due to Quaternary …

Varaždin is an old baroque city located in the North of Croatia along the Drava River basin
(alluvial sediments). Local site effects due to alluvial soft sediments (clays, sands, gravels) …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Soil or rock properties where buildings are situated
play an important role in the ground shaking caused by an earthquake. The highly …