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In many past and recent earthquakes it has been shown that the local conditions — soil and topographic effects — have a great influence in the damage distribution. It is very important to take into account and predict these possible local effects when assessing the earthquake hazard at regional and local scale.
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Roca, A., Oliveira, C. (2002). Introduction. In: Roca, A., Oliveira, C. (eds) Earthquake Microzoning. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8177-7_1
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