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In the last decades, besides the significant efforts being done to mitigate the destructive effects of earthquakes, there continues to be a serious threat for the world due to increased population and property density. Strong earthquakes that happened in the past revealed that modern societies can be seriously affected to the extent of decreasing, even temporarily interrupting social development with unmanageable public health consequences. Multinational cooperation and research projects in seismic risk reduction in the past and today are the consistent approach in the stated field. The European project, “An advanced approach to earthquake risk scenarios with application to different European towns (RISK-UE),” is an excellent example of such cooperation, which brought together the academic institutions from the west and the east, city officials, and the overall European scientific community in the field at one place with one main goal—to develop a general and modular methodology for creating earthquake-risk scenarios that concentrate on the distinctive features of European towns. With the participation of urban council representatives, the methodology has been applied to seven selected cities from the EU and Eastern Europe for its adaptation and validation creating European cities network for seismic risk reduction.
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