Cultural heritage and earthquakes: bridging the gap between geophysics, archaeoseismology and engineering

Abstract

This is the editoral of a special issue that is focused on the multidisciplinary approach to cultural heritage preservation, with special care to the impact of earthquakes and their associated effects. For that, we have collected a number of representative studies involving the different research fields, each addressing the problem through a specialized methodological perspective. The final goal is to set up a common ground for interaction, highlighting the need for scientific collaboration and coordinated inter- vention. Below, we briefly summarize the main contri- butions to this special issue, which have been rationally sorted to highlight the diversity in the backgrounds of the different authors and in their methodological approaches, but at the same time to emphasize similar aspects of the addressed problematics and common objectives.