"Quite brave keeping them here," I said, "given the seismic risks."
A program of mitigative measures to address the seismic risk was begun in 1988.
It remains to this day a point of reference for the study of seismic risk.
There is a high 'seismic' risk in the area of the region.
A special subset is urban seismic risk which looks at the specific issues of cities.
The project's too damned expensive to chuck it all just because there might be a seismic risk.
Reinforced concrete power poles are normally the standard in countries with high seismic risk.
Many cities live with the seismic risk of a rare, large intraplate earthquake.
Special protection measures must first be applied in areas of higher seismic risk.
Between 2002 and 2004 a major study was conducted to assess the seismic risk to Swiss nuclear power plants.