Several recent dramatic events drew the attention on the need to carefully reassess the very rare, high-impact, seismic hazard for large urban centers and critical facili [...]

The city of Grenoble in the French Alps is settled on top of hundreds of meters of post-glacial sediments which cause ground motion to be significantly increased in terms [...]

In order to understand and predict earthquake ground motions at high frequencies, it is necessary to evaluate a superficial S-wave velocity structure. In the Grenoble bas [...]

Tehran, capital of Iran, is under the threat of large magnitude earthquakes (above 7) located on very near faults. Previous studies on the effect of local surface geology [...]

The goal of the present paper is to propose an alternative site classification and the associated spectral shapes, that could be easily used in building codes and microzo [...]