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The tesponse of civil engineering works to earthquakes is the only real and conclusive proof of their adepuacy.But,earthpuakes as natural geological phenomena are few and far-between,which is fortunate from a human point of view.Therefore,drawing important lessons from each and every earthpuake is vital to improving the understanding of their dffects and consepuently to mitigating the effects of future earthquakes.Itis in this context that this volume is published,where a number of distinguished and internationally renowned earthpuake engineers make contributions largely based on lessons fron recent earthpuakes.In particular,studies from the Kobe earthpuake of 1955 and the more recent devastating earthpuakes in Turkey and Greece(August and September 1999,respectively)are included,Through assinilating the lessons learnt and disseminating this information as widely as possible,it is hopde that foture earthquakes will not extract such a heavy toll.