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... numerical seismic analysis of an urban building block located in Faial island, Azores, hit by an earthquake on July, 9th ...building in one ... See full document

... an in-situ testing campaign recently developed in the Faial island, Azores, Portugal, aiming at the assessment of the out-of-plane behaviour of traditional stone ... See full document

... aware of the latest species identified avoiding ...importance of having more scientific cruises devoted to cephalopod research and the need for the development of better catching ...applies in ... See full document

... sequence of April 21st 2007, centred at about 40 kilometres west of the Faial island, started with a small number of low magnitude events ...number of events increases, reaching ... See full document

... the seismic behaviour modelling and numerical analysis of two church structures on Pico Island, Azores, affected by the Faial earthquake on July 9, ...the analysis are ... See full document

... gap of the seismic hazard on the Azores ...from seismic hazard to seismic risk. Hence, the purpose of the second chapter is the assessment of the seismicity of the ... See full document

... models of propagation of seismic waves P and S using geophysical methods, such as refraction surveys and MASW (Multichannel analysis of surface ...lithology of the ... See full document

... 1998 Faial earthquake had his epicenter located at sea, approximately 10 Km NE of the island on a region considered to be hazardous (Carvalho et ...felt in Faial with Intensity VIII/IX ... See full document

... valid in the present work (see Appendix ...was in this context that we analyzed this ...correlation analysis also indicates a negative correlation (weak and not statistically significant) between FL ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... assessment of the group effect, an adequate calibration of the floors structural modelling was necessary, since their composition raised some difficulties in finding the most adequate ...strategy. ... See full document

... divided in three distinct ...description of the structure, such as the identification of the church, its location, historic information about the construction and previous interventions, geometric ... See full document

... schedule of t periods, and later a new period t+1 is included in the optimization ...increase of the NPV, the exchange is ...2013). In each period t+1, the effects of the discount ... See full document

... These four species are preferentially epigeic, with more or less frequent presence also as epilithic, growing on moist stone surfaces, preferably where there is at least a thin soil-[r] ... See full document

... spikes of 0.1 m and 0.18 m length, and fixed with clay in paved area (Figures 3a, ...types of sources were used: (1) 12-caliber rifle (Figure 3d), fired in holes of approxima- tely ... See full document

... areas in Azores, i.e. with natural vegetation still in its original ...rich in rare habitats and species, representing one of the most important and well-preserved biological hotspots ... See full document

... one of the most sensitive vertebrates to environmental changes, due to an early aquatic-dependent development stage and a highly permeable skin (Duellman & Trueb, ...kind of organism can represent a ... See full document

... the seismic vulnerability assessment method described in the previous section, the buildings with the highest vulnerability index will potentially suffer from eventual soft-story ...possibility of ... See full document

... aim of this work is to contribute to reduce this lack of ...list of the Parasitic Hymenoptera species and genera found in several fruit crops (apple, banana, orange and peach orchards) ... See full document

... (Proceedings of the Second International Workshop o f Malacology and Marine Biology, Vib Franca do Campo, S2o Migtrel, Axores). BULLOCK, RC, RD. Species richness and diver[r] ... See full document