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Historical Disasters in Context
Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was the political role of disasters? Historical Disasters in Context illustrates how past societies coped with a th...
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An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project
This book presents a summary of the important outcomes of the SIGMA project related to all aspects of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment: source characterization, rock motion characterization, site response characterization, and hazard calculations, with for all of them emphasis on the treatment of uncertainties. In recent years, attempts have been made to identify and quantify uncertainties in seismic hazard estimations for regions with moderate seismicity. These uncertainties, for which no estimation standards exist, create major difficulties and can lead to different interpretations and divergent opinions among experts. To address this matter, an international research project was launched in January 2011, by an industrial consortium composed of French and Italian organizations. This program, named SIGMA (Seismic Ground Motion Assessment) lasted for five years and involved a large number of international institutions. This book is intended for instructors running courses on engineering seismology, graduate students in the same field and practicing engineers involved in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses.
L'invention de la catastrophe au XVIIIe siècle
Cette étude montre que le terme de catastrophe fut au XVIIIe siècle une invention à plusieurs titres : langagier, scientifique et philosophique (réflexions des savants sur le devenir de l'humanité), politique et médiatique (dernières épidémies, prévention des désastres), artistique (représentations et modes de représentation des catastrophes).
Les tremblements de terre aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Les tremblements de terre sont les grands absents des manuels scolaires, les oubliés de l'histoire de France. Pourtant, l'exploration des archives et des sources historiques fait apparaître que plus de 750 séismes ont frappé le territoire français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, dont plus de 250 ont causé des dommages matériels, pour certains considérables. Grégory Quenet révèle ici un pan ignoré de la mémoire longue de la " nation France ", tout en mettant au jour de curieux épisodes : quelques jours après son mariage avec Marie-Thérèse, dans les Pyrénées, le jeune Louis XIV ressent le terrible tremblement de terre du 21 juin 1660 et cette coïncidence suffit pour faire cou...
