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AN: NS21A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: On the Seismic Hazard of Areas with Archaeological Sites.
AU: * Teramo, A
EM: teramo@unime.it
AU: Termini, D
AU: De Domenico, D
AU: Sacca, C
AB: A methodological approach which allows the actual level of seismic hazard of areas with archaeological sites to be evaluated is proposed. The procedure consists of a seismic, geological and geomorphological characterization of the area in study and a subsequent analysis of the observed damage in the archaeological site, arranged on the basis of specific protocols of seismic diagnostics, for the evaluation of the seismic evidence index. This index gives a numerical modelling of the seismic character of the observed damage within a correlation between collapsed structures in the archaeological site and specific endogenous and exogenous elements of the same area. An evaluation of the coherence of the actual level of seismic hazard of the areas which archaeological sites fall within, was done through a comparison between the strong ground motion which determined the observed damage and that one taken from the seismic hazard maps of the same area. A test of the procedure has been performed in different archaeological sites in Eastern Sicily (Italy).
DE: 0500 COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS (3200, 3252, 7833)
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0550 Model verification and validation
DE: 0560 Numerical solutions (4255)
SC: Near-Surface Geophysics [NS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting