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1Earthquake engineering — is the study of the behavior of buildings and structures subject to seismic loading. It is a subset of both structural and civil engineering.The main objectives of earthquake engineering are: * Understand the interaction between buildings or… …
2Earthquake preparedness — refers to a variety of measures designed to help individuals, businesses, and local and state governments in earthquake prone areas to prepare for significant earthquakes. Preparedness measures are part of the emergency management cycle, and can… …
3Earthquake engineering structures — are designed and constructed to withstand various types of hazardous earthquake exposures at the sites of their particular location.Earthquake engineering is treating its subject structures like defensive fortifications in military engineering… …
4Earthquake construction — is a branch of architectural engineering concerned with making sure structures can withstand as severe an earthquake shock as possible given the materials available. When, the structure in question is a human habitation, the questions of… …
5Earthquake loss — estimation is usually performed in terms of a Damage Ratio (DR) which is a ratio of the earthquake damage dollar amount to total value of a buildingcite book|title= Financial Management of Earthquake Risk|author=EERI Endowment… …
6earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …
7Design basis accident — A design basis accident (DBA) or maximum credible accident (MCA)[1] is a postulated accident that a nuclear facility must be designed and built to withstand without loss to the systems, structures, and components necessary to assure public health …
8Earthquake hazard zoning of India — The Indian subcontinent had a long history of devastating earthquakes. The major reason for the high frequency and intensity of the earthquakes is that India continues to drive into Asia at a rate of appromately 47 mm/year [ cite web title =… …
9Earthquake — For other uses, see Earthquake (disambiguation). Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 …
10Earthquake simulation — The very first earthquake simulations were performed by statically applying some horizontal inertia forces , based on scaled peak ground accelerations, to a mathematical model of a building cite book|title= Seismic Design of Building… …
