History of the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale ESI-07
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. History and Considerations on the Scale and Associated EEEs Database
- The collection and careful reading of published and unpublished papers and documents dealing with the same objective, first among them: [24]. I think we have to be very grateful to these authors because they opened the road for using ground effects in earthquake intensity evaluation.
- The presentation of the drafted ESI content at conferences at national and international levels (i.e., [25,26,27,28]) and the continuous discussion of the content at national and international levels with the involvements of numerous well-known international experts, to whom I am truly grateful. Among them, special mentions (also due to our friendship) are to be given to:
- Bagher Mohammadioun and his wife Jody. Bagher is a well-known seismologist [27] who for many years headed the Bureau d’Évaluation du Risque Sismique pour la Sûreté des Installations Nucléaires at the Institut Radioprotetion Surete Nucléaire (IPSN) of France;
- Ruben Tatevossian (seismologist) and Eugene Roghozin (geologist)—two well-known Russian scientists with great experience concerning macroseismic data and paleoseismology [24];
- Aybars Gurpinar, a civil engineer who for many years has been the Director of the Nuclear Installation Safety Division at the IAEA, with great worldwide experience on seismic hazards in relation to NPP sites [29];
- Frank Audemard, a Venezuelan paleoseismologist with great experience, mainly in seismically-active South American countries [30];
- Shmulik Marco, a well-known Israeli paleoseismologist and author of significant papers on the subject [31];
- James McCalpin, author of the international benchmark book titled Paleoseismology [32];
- Nils-Axel Mörner, a Swedish geologist with a broad field of experience, including in paleoseismology [33];
- John Clague, a Canadian authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences [34];
- Yoko Ota, also a geologist with great knowledge of the earthquake geology of Japan [35];
- Takashi Azuma, a geologist with significant knowledge of paleoseismology in Japan [35].
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Serva, L. History of the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale ESI-07. Geosciences 2019, 9, 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9050210
Serva L. History of the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale ESI-07. Geosciences. 2019; 9(5):210. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9050210
Chicago/Turabian StyleServa, Leonello. 2019. "History of the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale ESI-07" Geosciences 9, no. 5: 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9050210
APA StyleServa, L. (2019). History of the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale ESI-07. Geosciences, 9(5), 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9050210