%0 Book Section
%A Gasparini, Paolo
%A Garcia-Aristizabal, Alexander
%A Center for the Analysis and Monitoring of Environmental Risk (AMRA); Naples, Italy.,
%A Center for the Analysis and Monitoring of Environmental Risk (AMRA); Naples, Italy,
%B Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
%D 2014
%E Beer, Michael
%E Kougioumtzoglou, Ioannis A.
%E Patelli, Edoardo
%E Siu-Kui Au, Ivan
%F epos:1752
%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%P 1-20
%T Seismic Risk Assessment, Cascading Effects
%U https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/1752/
%X Different past disasters have highlighted the fact that natural or man-made events can trigger other events, leading to a non-negligible increase of fatalities and damages. As a consequence, there is an increasing implementing interest on multi-type hazard and risk assessments as well as assessing cascading effects, which are one of the fundamental concepts of the multi-risk assessment. As for most of the quantitative risk assessment for, the seismic natural hazards risk assessment is generally carried out separately without considering the effects of possible chains of events triggered by earthquakes. From the risk assessment point of view, the cascades of events occurring after an earthquake may represent a non-negligible source of loss amplifications. For quantitative purposes, we can consider the cascading effects analyzing two major sets of interactions: (1) interactions at the hazard level and (2) interactions at the vulnerability level. In this entry we present and discuss different examples of scenarios of cascading effects triggered by earthquakes.