Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk
Tucker, B. E. / Hwang, Christina N. / Erdik, Mustafa Özder![Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/103/10316898/CHSBZCOP0310316898.jpg)
Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban se...