Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk

by Brian E. Tucker

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban seismic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792329147
• ISBN13: 9780792329145
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"