Earthquake Engineering in Areas Away from Tectonic Plate Boundaries

This article presents findings on many facets of research into engineering for mitigating earthquake hazards in regions remote from tectonic plate boundaries. Topics covered include seismic activities in intraplate regions, ground motion behaviour of intraplate earthquakes, considerations of site modification behaviour, structural design and detailing of reinforced concrete and structural analysis in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity. Much of the materials presented were generated from collaborative research involving the author and numerous esteemed collaborators over many years. The challenges that are being attended to are distinctive to those addressed in mainstream earthquake engineering research which is applicable to areas in proximity to tectonic plate boundaries.