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Post-seismic assessment of existing constructions: evaluation of the shakemaps for identifying exclusion zones in Emilia

  • Braga, Franco (Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, University of Rome "La Sapienza") ;
  • Gigliotti, Rosario (Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, University of Rome "La Sapienza") ;
  • Monti, Giorgio (Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, University of Rome "La Sapienza") ;
  • Morelli, Francesco (Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa) ;
  • Nuti, Camillo (Department of Architecture, University of Roma) ;
  • Salvatore, Walter (Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa) ;
  • Vanzi, Ivo (Department of Engineering and Geology, University of Chieti-Pescara)
  • Received : 2013.08.29
  • Accepted : 2014.07.07
  • Published : 2015.01.25
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Abstract

The Emilia, May-July 2012, earthquake has dramatically highlighted the only the hazards facing the people in insufficiently secured workplaces, but also the socio-economic consequences of interruption of production activities. After the event, in order to guarantee suitable safety levels, the Italian government asked for a generalized seismic retrofit of buildingsaffected by the earthquake under consideration. Considering that Emilia is one of the most industrialized Italian region, the number of the industrial buildings to be verified could however lead to not acceptable resumption of production time. So, with the aim to speed up the recovery, were leaved out from this request the buildings which had undergone a strong enoughshaking without any damage. In practice, the earthquakes were being used as a "test" to evaluate the seismic structural strength. Besides, the Italian government provision specifies also the zones, within which buildings that escaped evident damage are exempt from obligatory checks, and termed "exclusion zones", shall be individuated using the data provided by the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in the form of so-called "shakemaps". Obviously, the precision of such data greatly influences the determination of the exclusions zones and so all the economic issues related to them. Starting from these considerations, the present paper describes an evaluation of the reliability of the procedure of shakemap generation with specific regard to the seismic events that struck the Emilia region on May 20 and 29, 2012.

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