Faial Island (Azores)
Seismic analysis of a urban block in Faial Island of Azores
... The paper deals with numerical seismic analysis of an urban building block located in Faial island, Azores, hit by an earthquake on July, 9th 1998. It includes two different construction types, mostly ...
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Seismic analysis of a building block located in an urban area of the Faial Island of Azores
... This paper presents part of an ongoing research on the seismic behaviour of a whole building block at Horta (a town in the Faial Island - Azores), hit by an earthquake on July, 9th 1998. The outcome of a ...
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Monitoring marine debris in two sandy beaches at Faial Island : Azores
... at Faial Island - Azores, is a master project that took place at the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (Horta), during the academic year of 2012-2013, and is submitted for the title of Master of ...
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Seismic vulnerability assessment and characterisation of the buildings on Faial Island, Azores
... Abstract The earthquake of the 9th of July 1998 that hit in the central group of the Azores archipelago greatly affected the islands of Faial, Pico and São Jorge, reaching a magnitude of Mw 6.2 with the epicentre ...
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Experimental in-situ testing of typical masonry constructions of Faial Island - Azores
... the Faial island, Azores, Portugal, aiming at the assessment of the out-of-plane behaviour of traditional stone masonry ...the Faial/Pico earthquake on July 9th 1998, in order to provide adequate ...
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Fish larvae and zooplankton biomass around Faial Island (Azores archipelago). A preliminary study of species occurrence and relative abundance.
... off Faial island (Azores archipelago, NE Atlantic), to a depth of 100 m, between February and June 1998, covering the spawning period of a number of commercially important fish ...oceanic island ...
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Morphology of the Faial Island shelf (Azores): the interplay between volcanic, erosional, depositional, tectonic and mass-wasting processes
... Directorate for Science and Technology (DRCT) through fund- ing schemes (FEDER, POCI2001, FSE, COMPETE and project PEst-OE/EEI/LA0009/2011). R.Q. was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/27135/2006) and F.T. ...
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Current status of using beaks to identify cephalopods: III International Workshop and training course on Cephalopod beaks, Faial island, Azores, April 2007
... The identification of cephalopods using their beaks is still a difficult technique. To increase our knowledge of this technique and stimulate a new generation of beak experts, the III International beak workshop and ...
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Feeding ecology of the white sea bream, Diplodus sargus cadenati (Perciformes: Sparidae) and the ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta (Perciformes: Labridae), from Faial Island – Azores
... Madeira Island, where a drastic reduction in seden- tary coastal fish due to heavy fishing has preceded an outbreak of sea urchins and the permanent scarce- ness of erect algal assemblages in the shallower strata ...
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Velocity model estimated from seismic refraction survey and MASW, at Flamengos site (Faial island, Azores)
... do Faial poderão estar na origem de efeitos de amplificação na amplitude das ondas sísmicas (efeito de sítio) que se verificam em diversos pontos da ilha do Faial, e em particular na zona dos Flamengos à ...
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insular shelf of Faial : morfological and sedimentary evolution, The
... of Faial is dominated by steep coastal cliffs (with angles normally higher than 20º - see Figure 124) and with a sharp angle at the base, which means that the dominant process responsible for coastal retreat is ...
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Diel fluctuations of a sandy beach fish assemblage at Porto Pim, Faial Island, Azores
... marmoratus) but not always in the same direction. Variation in community parameters of the Porto Pim fish assemblage in relation to tidal height between August an[r] ...
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Gestão da água na produção de leite na Ilha do Faial
... the Faial island and the relevance of the milk industry, both in socio-economic level, either as a consumer of ...in Faial, primarily through interviews made to 41 ...the island, the type of ...
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Contributo para a caracterização do sistema agropecuário da Ilha do Faial, Arquipélago dos Açores
... A Plantago lanceolata foi dentro das outras espécies, a registada em maior proporção nas pastagens da ilha sendo considerada medicinal. Está presente nas três zonas agroclimáticas, mas é sobretudo na zona baixa que ...
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Análise dinâmica de um quarteirão localizado na Cidade da Horta - Ilha do Faial
... Este trabalho integra-se no estudo dos reforços e reparações a realizar nos edifícios afectados pelo sismo ocorrido na Ilha do Faial, em Julho de 1998. A análise baseia-se no comportamento de um quarteirão (Fig. ...
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O jogo digit@l: um estudo de caso com clãs do Funchal e do Faial
... Essa necessidade de experimentar situações que não podem muitas vezes ser postas em prática no quotidiano é fortemente evidenciada nos jogos electrónicos, principalmente, aqueles cuja [r] ...
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Requalificação do Espaço Envolvente da Ponte dos Sete Arcos – Faial (Madeira)
... do Faial, o que dá a entender que se trata de uma construção que modela todo o ...o Faial num lugar de avanço construtivo, com condições de deslocação ...
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Small Island Visitor Attractions
... This conclusion was consistent with the position of Tourism Intelligence International (TII; 2003) which, based on a tourism inventory study, found that the responsibility for development of VA in Trinidad was shared by ...
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Vulnerabilidade sísmica do património religioso das ilhas do Faial e do Pico, Açores
... No Capítulo 2, apresenta-se a metodologia desenvolvida pelo Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Terramoti (GNDT) para avaliação dos danos observados em igrejas após a ocorrência de um sismo, bem como da vulnerabilidade ...
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Estudo experimental in situ de paredes em alvenaria do Faial, Açores
... O sismo ocorrido a 9 de Julho de 1998 no Grupo Central dos Açores afectou fortemente as ilhas do Faial, Pico e S.Jorge. Tendo atingido a magnitude de 6 na escala de Richter, com o epicentro localizado a cerca de ...
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