Discussion
Earthquake engineering is concerned chiefly with
Answer: D
Correct answer: designing structures to withstand earthquake shaking
Earthquake engineering takes the shaking as given - supplied by seismology and hazard assessment - and asks how to build so that structures survive it with acceptable damage. Predicting earthquakes and characterising the crust are seismology’s problems; the engineer’s is the response of the structure.
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