Seismic Risk Assessment of the Railway Network of China’s Mainland

Abstract Earthquakes pose a great risk to railway systems and services around the world. In China alone, earthquakes caused 88 rail service disruptions between 2012 and 2019. Here, we present a first-of-its-kind methodology to analyze the seismic risk of a railway system using an empirically derived...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weihua Zhu, Kai Liu, Ming Wang, Elco E. Koks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-08-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00292-9