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International Water Power & Dam Construction, August 2010:

This position paper sets out recommendations and guidelines for building dams and appurtenant structures that can withstand the effects of strong tremors. It also calls for effort to be made to collect, analyse and interpret observations of dam performance during earthquakes, and draws experience from the large Wenchuan and Chile earthquakes to improve the seismic safety assessment of existing dams and the design of new dams in the future.

The paper was approved at the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) annual meeting in Hanoi in May 2010; and was prepared by the Committee on Seismic Aspects of Dam Design.

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Hazards Earthquake Flood Technological hazard
Themes Water Structural safety Critical infrastructure
Country and region Chile China
Number of pages
3 p.
Publication year
2010

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