The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited - Mendes-Victor, Luiz.; Sousa Oliveira, Carlos; Azevedo, João.; Ribeiro, A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Historical Framework -- The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 in Spanish Contemporary Authors -- The Lisbon Earthquake of November 1st, 1755: An Historical Overview of its Approach -- The Great Earthquakes of Lisbon 1755 and Aceh 2004 Shook the World. Seismologists' Societal Responsibility -- Seismic Engineering Contributions and Trends to Face Future 1755-Events -- Bruce Alan Bolt 1930-2005 Professor of Seismology, Emeritus -- Social-Economic Impact on Communities Exposed to Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Catastrophe Risk Management in Developing Countries and the Last Mile -- A Phenomenological Reconstruction of the Mw9 November 1st 1755 Earthquake Source -- The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and the Genesis of the Risk Management Concept -- Holistic Urban Seismic Risk Evaluation of Megacities: Application and Robustness -- Urban Planning Facing Natural Hazards, Information and Warning -- Risk Estimates for Germany -- Traditional and Innovative Methods for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment at Large Geographical Scales -- Earthquake Early Warning: Real-time Prediction of Ground Motion from the First Seconds of Seismic Recordings -- Simulating Earthquake Scenarios in the European Project LESSLOSS: The Case of Lisbon -- How Distant Earthquakes Contribute to Seismic Hazard in Mainland Portugal -- Propagation and Local Effects on the Seismic Destruction -- Visualization of Seismic Wavefields and Strong Ground Motions Using Data from a Nationwide Strong-Motion Network and Large-Scale Computer Simulation -- Empirical and Theoretical Assessment of Upper Bounds on Earthquake Ground-Motions -- Suboceanic Rayleigh Waves in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake -- Contribution to the Damage Interpretation During the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake -- How to Build Earthquake Resistant Buildings Under the Environmental Constrains -- Caveats for Nonlinear Response Assessment of Shear Wall Structures -- Rapid Probabilistic Assessment of Structural Systems in Earthquake Regions -- Development of European Shaking Tables -- The Seismic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls: Experiments and Modeling -- Building Performance During Recent Earthquakes in the Iberian Peninsula and Surrounding Regions -- New Approaches to the Seismogenesis on the 1755 -- Seismotectonics of the Azores-Tunisia Region -- The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: A Review and the Proposal for a Tsunami Early Warning System in the Gulf of Cadiz -- Evaluation of the 1755 Earthquake Source Using Tsunami Modeling -- A Finite-Fault Modeling of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake Sources -- A Statistical Study of the Seismic Intensities of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake -- Global Response to Large Earthquakes -- Eyewitness Reports of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia -- Towards a Global Response to Large Disasters -- Post-Tsunami Urban Damage Assessment in Thailand, Using Optical Satellite Imagery and the VIEWSTM Field Reconnaissance System -- Lesson Learnt and Implemented Actions After 2002 Molise-Puglia Earthquake -- The Next 1755 - Myth and Reality; Priorities and Actions to Develop in Case of an Earthquake in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
Keywords: Geotechnical engineering; Geophysics; Civil engineering; History; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Civil Engineering; History, general