**A Cognitive Look at Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Understanding the Multidimensionality of the Phenomena**

Silvia Garcia

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*Not even windstorm, earth-tremor, or rush of water is a catastrophe. A catastrophe is known by its works; that is, to say, by the occurrence of disaster. So long as the ship rides out the storm, so long as the city resists the earth-shocks, so long as the levees hold, there is no disaster. It is the collapse of the cultural protections that constitutes the proper disaster. (Carr, 1932)*
