University of Alicante

Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Risk - University of Alicante

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Risk sismico, seismic engineering university of alicante

Our staff are teaching and researcher people of the Department of Physics, Engineering of Systems and Theory of the Signal of the Upper Polytechnical School and of the Department of Sciences of the Earth and of the Environment of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Alicante. The research group is also part of the University Institute of Physics Applied to Sciences and Technologies. Our commitment is the study of seismology and seismic risk, especially in the province of Alicante.

You can contact with the head of the group from here.

NEWS & EVENTS

21/03/2019

II international workshop on seismic risk awareness in Alicante province

From 21 to 22 March 2019 the second internatinal workshop on seismic risk awareness in the province of Alicante is held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (MACA)

05/02/2019

Seminars on seismic microzonation and seismic risk at the Center de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique (CRAAG)

The researchers Juan José Galiana-Merino, Sergio Molina Palacios, Juan Luis Soler Llorens and Boualem Youcef Nassim Benabdeloued stayed from January 15 to 17 to Algiers in order to teach several seminars on seismic microzonation and seismic risk at the Center de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique (CRAAG). Likewise, instrumentation developed by the research group itself has been assigned for use in Algeria.

01/12/2018

The 2nd International Conference on the Geology of the Chain of Maghrebides and the nearby region

Alumnos de doctorado, dirigidos por miembros del GIRS y por el Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique (CRAAG) en Argelia, presentan los últimos resultados de sus investigaciones: “Shallow sediments layers characterization in Oued Fodda city by ambient vibrations data inversion” y “Moho depth and crustal velocity structure in the north of Algeria by teleseismic receiver function analysis”. La conferencia tendrá lugar del 4 al 6 de diciembre de 2018.

09/11/2018

Participation in the 1st Seismology Seminar at Observatorio Fabra (Barcelona-Spain)

The GIRS research group collaborates for the first time with the Fabra Observatory, an institution founded in 1904 and dependent on the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. Members of the GIRS research group will participate in the 1st Seismology Seminar at the Fabra Observatory that will take place next Saturday, November 10, 2018.

12THIWSMRR: 12th International Workshop on Seismic Microzoning and Risk Reduction

Collaboration and training project in microzonation and seismic risk with the CRAAG (Algeria)

ESC2018: The 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission

Researchers of the GIRS Group will analyze what can happen in Elche buildings in case of earthquakes

I Sensitization days against seismic risk seismic in the province of Alicante

ERES 2017: 11th International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures

Seismic microzonation campaigns in Melilla

Oferta de becas pre-doctorales y plazas de técnico.

EGU General Assembly 2017.

Special Issue "Urban Geophysics: New developments and Research Trends" in Near Surface Geophysics journal.

Data recording for seismic micro-zoning of the province of Alicante.

Our research team will develop a pioneering project in Spain on earthquake risks