1. Close-up view of damage to the Government Hill School located at the head of a landslide

2. Chamoli (India), earthquake: A major landslide about 1 km north of Gopeshwar

3. Tsunamis

4. Tsunami damage

5. Stress – strain behavior of FRP and mild steel

6. Retrofitting of load bearing buildings by bandage

7. Adding a new column below a floating column

9. EDD's in a building frame: (a) along the diagonal, (b) mounted on a platform

10. Friction damper

11. Connections of Friction Damper

12. Mechanism of friction damper

13. Types of friction dampers

14. 1 unit – single row

15. 2 units- single row

16. 2 units- double row

17. 2 units- single row

18. 3 units- single row

19. 3 units- double row

20. 4 units- single row

21. 4 units- double row

22. Fluid viscous damper

23. Design of fluid viscous damper

24. Uses of fluid viscous dampers

26. Base isolator system Reduces the impact of very high seismic forces on buildings to minimum.

27. Retrofitting on the 1st Floor, 2nd Floor and above is business as usual

28. Base isolation improvement procedure for first floor columns (1) to (4)