Imperial College London
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Professor Julian J Bommer

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Research Investigator
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5984j.bommer Website CV

 
 
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Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Nievas:2020:10.1007/s10950-019-09897-0,
author = {Nievas, CI and Bommer, J and Crowley, H and van, Elk J and Ntinalexis, M and Sangirardi, M},
doi = {10.1007/s10950-019-09897-0},
journal = {Journal of Seismology},
pages = {263--292},
title = {A database of damaging small-to-medium magnitude earthquakes},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09897-0},
volume = {24},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Interest  in  small-to-medium  magnitude  earthquakes  and  their  potential  consequences  has  increased significantly  in  recent  years,  mostly  due  to  the  occurrence  of  some  unusually  damaging  small  events,  the development of seismic risk assessment methodologies for existing building stock, and the recognition of the potential  risk  of  induced  seismicity. As  part  of  a  clear  ongoing  effort  of  the  earthquake  engineering community to develop knowledge on the risk posed by smaller events, aglobal database of earthquakes withmomentmagnitudes in the range from 4.0 to 5.5 for which damage and/or casualties have been reportedhas been compiledand is made publicly available. Thetwo main purposeswereto facilitate studies onthe potential  for  earthquakes  in  thismagnitude  range  to  cause  material  damage and  to  carry  out  a  statistical study  to  characterise  the  frequency  with  which  earthquakes  of  this  size  cause  damage  and/or  casualties(published  separately).  The  present  paper describes  the  data  sources  and  processfollowedfor  the compilation of the database, whileproviding critical discussions on the challenges encounteredand decisions made,  which  are  of  relevance for itsinterpretation  and  use.The  geographic,  temporal  and  magnitude distributions  of  the  1,958  earthquakesthat  make  up  the  databaseare  presented  alongside thegeneral statistics on damage and casualties, noting that these stem from a variety of sources of differing reliability.Despite its inherent limitations, we believe it is an important contributionto the understanding of the extent of the consequences that may arise from earthquakes in the magnitude range of study.
AU  - Nievas,CI
AU  - Bommer,J
AU  - Crowley,H
AU  - van,Elk J
AU  - Ntinalexis,M
AU  - Sangirardi,M
DO  - 10.1007/s10950-019-09897-0
EP  - 292
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1383-4649
SP  - 263
TI  - A database of damaging small-to-medium magnitude earthquakes
T2  - Journal of Seismology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09897-0
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10950-019-09897-0
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/75402
VL  - 24
ER  -
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