Scope of the Series

The book series addresses the multi-disciplinary topic of earthquake hazards and risks, one of the fastest growing, relevant and applied fields of research and study practiced within the geosciences and environment. It also addresses principles, concepts and paradigms of the earthquake connected disciplines, as well as operational terms, materials, tools, techniques and methods including processes, procedures and implications. This book series aims to equip professionals and others with a formal understanding of earthquake hazards and risk topics, to clarify the similarities or differences in fundamental concepts and principles in the discipline, to explain the relevance and application of primary tools and practices in earthquake risk study, to direct geologists, engineers, architects, planners, teachers, students, and others interested in the earthquake discipline to authoritative and vetted sources, and last but not least, to capture the wide range of expanding disciplinary activities under a single umbrella of earthquake hazard, disaster and risk concept.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Earthquake Disasters 1**

Tse-Shan Hsu

**Section 2 Seismicity and Modelling 67**

Zuhair Hasan El-Isa

**Regression Model 109**

Valentina Svalova

**Disasters over Time 11**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Earthquakes, Life at Risk 3**

Michaela Ibrion and Nicola Paltrinieri

Wang, Sha Liu and Baofeng Tian

Chapter 5 **Automated Model Construction for Seismic Disaster**

Chapter 6 **Frequency-Magnitude Distribution of Earthquakes 87**

Chapter 7 **The Prediction of Earthquake Ground Motions by**

Pithan Pairojn and Sirithip Wasinrat

Chapter 2 **The Earthquake Disaster Risk in Japan and Iran and the**

**Necessity of Dynamic Learning from Large Earthquake**

Chapter 3 **The Major Cause of Earthquake Disasters: Shear Bandings 31**

Chapter 4 **Development of an UAS for Earthquake Emergency Response and Its Application in Two Disastrous Earthquakes 49** Chaoyong Peng, Zhiqiang Xu, Jiansi Yang, Yu Zheng, Weiping

**Assessment of Pipeline Network in Wide Urban Area 69**

Hideyuki O-tani, Muneo Hori and Lalith Wijerathne
