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Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
Figure 8.68
Effect of wave passage (Prada and Gioncu, 2004)
Figure 8.69
Accidental eccentricities
8.7.4 FireFollowing Earthquake
The major earthquakes usually cause extreme damage to buildings and infrastructure.
Fire following earthquakes can cause significant losses which, sometimes, exceed the
ones produced by the earthquake shakes. Earthquakes are largely unpredictable and
large fires following earthquakes are even less predictable. The risk sources of fire
following earthquake are due to the damage of pipelines, electric wiring, oil systems,
active and passive protection systems, interruption of transportation network and water
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