BARROS , Juan Gabriel

Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, with a population close to three million inhabitants, is located in an earthquake‐prone region that has been struck by important events in the past. The city is built on the hanging wall of an active reverse fault, constituting a piggy‐back basin filled with volcanic and fluvial origin deposits. To date, the...

ABSTRACT The presence of multiscale interactions means that the complex urban wavefield must be observed and analyzed in order to understand seismic ground motion in urban environments. Originally called site–city interaction, the interactions between soil and structures, structures and soil, and between structures contribute to the...

ABSTRACT The presence of multiscale interactions means that the complex urban wavefield must be observed and analyzed in order to understand seismic ground motion in urban environments. Originally called site–city interaction, the interactions between soil and structures, structures and soil, and between structures contribute to the...