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Damage of power transformers and other facilities of substations caused by recent destructive earthquakes, such as 1994 Northridge in the USA, 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu in Japan, 1999 Izmit in Turkey, and 1999 Chi-Chi in Taiwan, highlighted the urgent needs for seismic risk assessment…

The global mean surface temperature rise was observed in the past century and proved the warming of the earth climate system. Global warming is believed to continue into the next decades due to unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas emissions. As a consequence of global warmi…