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Essay On Seismic Risk Management

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Earthquake - The reason for the disruption and destruction of various civilization and races!
Seismic events throughout the world in the recent past have triggered many professionals to look into the matter of earthquakes with more gravity than ever before. According to National Geophysical data center, over the past century about 2 million people have died in earthquakes. Whereas about a quarter million people have lost their lives in India, which goes to show the amount of work that is required and called for in India, in the field of earthquake engineering. With India’s quest to become a developed nation and the pre-requisite of it being sustainable infrastructure, whose biggest foe being earthquake it becomes essential for us to grow out of it. The challenge against engineers now is to develop a mechanism to effectively reduce and mitigate these losses …show more content…

Seismic Risk of an area is computed by incorporating the vulnerability, hazard and inventory of that particular area. Seismic risk in plain terms gives the level of danger for the area under study which is calculated by considering various factors like population density, Land use Land cover, Building typology, Building age, Building height, Building strength and seismic hazard of the area.
The common misconception about earthquake has been prevalent since centuries that earthquakes kill people, but earthquake is just a natural phenomenon causing ground shaking which in turn due to the incapability of the building to resist it causes the damage and collapse of building which eventually leads to life and economic loss. Hence, it is not the natural phenomenon of earthquake that is responsible for these causalities but the poor designing and execution in construction of these buildings which makes them receptive to this unavoidable natural

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