Earthquakes

In this article, the Cultural Heritage Earthquake Damage Ontology (CHEDO) model is presented. This ontology has been designed to document damage and loss caused by earthquakes in cultural heritage, through its integration into BIM systems interconnected with databases, although this integration is not addressed in the present work. The CHEDO model integrates terms and relationships to document the damage process in relation to the building characteristics (architectural, spatial, constructional, and geometrical) and the physical environment of the same. This model, by providing a comprehensive description of the building and its environment, allows for complete and accurate documentation of damage, which supports the planning of post-earthquake restoration and reconstruction.

Esta investigación se centra en la cartografía de los sitios patrimoniales de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU), la producción de mapas de uso y cobertura del suelo para ayudar en la evaluación de riesgos, y la identificación de los sitios patrimoniales que pueden ser vulnerables a posibles riesgos naturales, produciendo en última instancia una base de datos SIG para los sitios patrimoniales y mapas de riesgos múltiples.

Este estudio presenta una evaluación simplificada para valorar la probabilidad de daños debidos a los movimientos sísmicos en los Sitios del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO en toda Europa.

The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced the first scientific flagship report "Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: knowing better and losing less". The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced this report, the result of a multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary networking process representing the combined efforts of more than two hundred experts, mostly European. It aims to support the integration of science into informed decision-making by synthesizing and translating the evidence for disaster risk management and strengthening the science-policy and science-operation interface.

En este trabajo se analiza por primera vez la exposición estimada a peligros geológicos de 981 bienes incluidos en la Lista de Patrimonio Mundial de la Unesco en todo el mundo y la concienciación sobre riesgos de sus gestores.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, through the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute, is responsible for publishing the volume-catalog "The recovery of the cultural heritage of the city of Lorca", which exhaustively compiles all the works and projects carried out under the Master Plan and which reflects the undoubted success of its balance sheet: 98% of the planned budget, more than 60 million euros, has been executed and 100% of it has been committed, making it an international benchmark on how to act in disaster situations affecting cultural heritage.

The seismic evaluation of art objects requires a multidisciplinary approach and the definition of a methodology to assess the level of safety and the possible interventions necessary for the prevention of seismic risk, seeking a compromise between safety and conservation. This article describes a first step in this direction, in which the different aspects of the procedure, from the path of knowledge of the art object to the structural analysis, were studied on the six statues of Michelangelo located in the "Galleria dei Prigioni" (Slaves Gallery) of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. We have shown that the general principles and criteria expressed in the "Italian Guidelines for the evaluation and mitigation of seismic risk of cultural heritage", which are specifically dedicated to masonry constructions, could be usefully extended to other works of art such as statues, starting from historical research, geometrical study and characterization of materials, to the development of specific methods of analysis. This research could be the basis for future studies on the prevention of seismic damage to art objects, including minimal interventions and specific devices, such as isolation systems.