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. — (NATO ASI series. Series E: Applied sciences ; 271)Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Worshop on An Evaluation of Guidelines for Developing Earthquake Damage Scenarios for Urban Areas, Istanbul, Turkey, October 8-11, 1993Sumario: Some remarks concerning worldwide urban earthquake hazard and earthquake hazard mitigation -- Socioeconomic and political considerations in developing earthquake damage scenarios in urban areas -- Seismological information necesary for beneficial earthquake risk reduction -- Geotechnical aspects of the estimation and mitigation of earthquake risk -- Estimation of earthquake damage of buildingsand other structures in large urban areas -- Creating the scenario and drafting earthquake hazard -- The Quito Project -- Developing a comprehensive earthquake disaster masterplan for Istanbul -- Seismic risk on the territory of the City of Yerevan, Armenia -- Status of seismic hazard and risk management in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal -- Earthquake disaster countermeasures in Saitama Prefecture, Japan -- Arguments for earthquake hazard mitigation in the Kamchatka Region -- Seismic risk and hazard reduction in Vancouver -- Earthquake hazards in the Guatemala city metropolitan area -- Earthquake hazard in El Salvador -- Seismic safety of the Lima metropolitan area -- Earthquake damage scenarios in Lisbon for disaster preparedness -- Granada facing and earthquake -- Seismic exposure and mitigation policy in Nice, France -- The city of Patras-W.Greece