Earthquake Science and Engineering

Earthquakes form one of the categories of natural disasters that sometimes result in huge loss of human life as well as destruction of (infra)structures as experienced during recent great earthquakes. This book addresses scientific and engineering aspects of earthquakes which are generally taught and published separately. This book intends to fill the gap between these two fields associated with earthquakes and help seismologists and earthquake engineers better communicate with and understand each other. This will foster the development of new techniques for dealing with various aspects of earthquakes and earthquake-associated issues to safeguard the security and welfare of societies worldwide. Because this work covers both scientific and engineering aspects in a unified way it offers a complete overview of earthquakes their mechanics their effects on (infra)structures and secondary associated events. As such this book is aimed at engineering professionals with an earth sciences background (geology seismology geophysics) or those with an engineering background (civil architecture mining geological engineering) or with both and it can also serve as a reference work for academics and (under)graduate students.