Citation

Fabbrocino F, Vaiano G, Formisano A, D'Amato M. Front. Built Environ. 2019; 5: e102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, The Author(s), Publisher Frontiers Media)

DOI

10.3389/fbuil.2019.00102

PMID

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Abstract

In this paper seismic vulnerability and risk of a sample of churches, located in Teramo and Ischia island (Naples gulf), both affected by the last Italian earthquakes, is presented. To this aim, it is applied a simplified assessment method particularly suitable for seismic evaluations at a territorial scale, providing a global score to be compared among the cases analysed. The data obtained allow us of plotting vulnerability maps and of providing a seismic risk index for all the considered churches. In addition, the calculated indexes permit a preliminary health state evaluation of the inspected churches, for ranking the priorities and planning additional in depth-evaluations.

Language: en

Keywords

Hazard index; large scale analysis method; Masonry churches; seismic risk; seismic vulnerability