Description:Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Full-Scale Laboratory: The Practice of Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Missions and Their Contribution to Earthq ... ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Early Field Investigations; 1.3 Malletś Investigation of the 1857 Neapolitan Earthquake; 1.4 UNESCO Field Missions 1962-1980; 1.4.1 The M=6.1 Skopje Earthquake of 26 July 1963; 1.4.2 The M=6.8 Varto-Üstükran Earthquake of 19 August 1966; 1.4.3 The M=7.1 Mudurnu Valley Earthquake of 22 July 1967; 1.4.4 The M=6.4 Pattan Earthquake of 28 December 1974; 1.4.5 The M=6.3 Gemona di Friuli Earthquake of 6 May 1976.