The New Madrid Seismic Zone, located in the central United States, produced five earthquakes in 1811–1812, 1843, and 1895, ranging from strong to major. A recurrence of its activity would cause ...substantial damage to the central U.S., but the magnitude of the most likely event is debatable. Accounting for 0.2 s spectral accelerations (SA) and peak ground velocities (PGV) with the local geologic conditions, this study offered methods for estimating the moment magnitudes (M) of these earthquakes. We analyzed 0.2 s SA and PGV and compared these data with the reported Modified Mercalli Intensities. Our estimates are M 7.6, 7.5, and 7.7 for the three 1811–1812 mainshocks in order of quake occurrence; M 6.2 for the 1843 Marked Tree, Arkansas; and M 6.7 for the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquakes. These estimates are comparable to or exceed most previous approximations. Accordingly, potential liquefaction and resultant ground failure may affect most unconsolidated sediments throughout the central United States.
•New Madrid Seismic Zone produced large earthquakes in 1811–1812, 1843, and 1895.•Site effects were evaluated to estimate the magnitudes.•Spectral accelerations and peak ground velocities were analyzed.•These values were then compared values with the MMIs.•Three earthquakes in 1811–1812 were likely > M 7.5.
20 taxa of new or scarcely known vascular plants in the province of Madrid are commented. We provide the first records for Astragalus
granatense, Carex hordeistichos, Carex pendula, Imperata ...cylindrica, Leucojum autumnale, Lotus hispidus,
Orchis italica and Urtica pilulifera.
Se comentan 20 taxones de plantas vasculares nuevas o poco citadas para la provincia de
Madrid. Merecen ser destacadas las citas de Astragalus granatensis, Carex hordeistichos, Carex pendula, Imperata cylindrica, Leucojum autumnale, Lotus hispidus, Orchis italica y Urtica pilulifera.
En el otoño de 2017 se vivió en Cataluña una insurgencia institucional que evidenció una profunda crisis constitucional. El Estado tuvo que defender el orden constitucional y, para ello, recurrió a ...unos instrumentos excepcionales: la aplicación del art. 155 CE, el enjuiciamiento y condena de los responsables de la insurgencia por vía penal, y la anulación por el Tribunal Constitucional de los principales actos y leyes con los que se había tratado de perpetrar la ruptura. Todo lo cual es estudiado por este libro, que ofrece un relato desde la perspectiva jurídico-constitucional de lo sucedido. Sitúa el contexto político del procés, remontándose a sus primeros orígenes, y analiza de forma crítica la adecuación de la respuesta dada por las instituciones en defensa de la Constitución.
Asimismo, a partir de la revisión tanto del orden internacional como del Derecho constitucional comparado y del Derecho constitucional español, se concluye la ilegalidad del intento de secesión catalán y se destaca su ilegitimidad, incompatible con los postulados de un Estado democrático de Derecho. Se trató, en definitiva, de un intento de golpe de Estado entre lo moderno y lo posmoderno, como se justifica en el libro. Por último, se cierra con una invitación a reflexionar sobre el futuro, que exige afrontar la crisis constitucional que aún permanece y que puede llegar a poner en cuestión la solidez de la Constitución de 1978 si no se recupera el vigor de su fuerza integradora. Germán M. Teruel Lozano es profesor de Derecho constitucional de la Universidad de Murcia.
Doctor en Derecho por la Universidad de Bolonia y por la Universidad de Murcia (2014), recibió el premio Nicolás Pérez Serrano del CEPC a la mejor tesis en Derecho constitucional. Previamente, había cursado el Máster de Derecho constitucional de la Universidad de Sevilla (2010), como becario de la Fundación “La Caixa”, y la Licenciatura en Derecho en la Universidad de Murcia, con premio extraordinario y mención de honor en los Premios Nacionales (2009). A nivel investigador, cuenta con numerosas publicaciones, en especial en el ámbito de la libertad de expresión y discursos extremos, y derechos fundamentales en la sociedad digital; y ha realizado estancias en diferentes universidades y centros de investigación.
Fue colegial del Real Colegio de España en Bolonia (2011-2012). Sus convicciones europeístas le han llevado a coordinar el Proyecto Jean Monnet Eucons y es codirector del Seminario ítalo-español de estudios constitucionales. Asimismo, trabajó como asistente técnico parlamentario en el Congreso de los Diputados (2016) y fue becario del Tribunal Constitucional (2015). También trabajó en prácticas como asistente en el Parlamento Europeo (2009). Colabora con medios de comunicación y foros de divulgación jurídica tanto a nivel regional, La Verdad de Murcia y Onda Regional; como nacional, Agenda Pública-El País, Letras Libres y Hay Derecho. Nació en Murcia en 1986 y está casado. Texto de la editorial
In the Golden Age of Spanish Theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the ...king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, he finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to reconcile the public and the private, society and the individual, the monarch and the man.
In brilliantly reinterpreting two of Lope de Vega's plays, long regarded as conventional royalist propaganda, Forcione places his texts in the context of political and institutional history, philosophy, theology, and art history. In so doing he shows how Spanish theater anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterized the ascendance of the absolutist state and its threat to the cultivation of individuality, authenticity, and humanity.
The founding of modern cultural institutions was owed to the rulers of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Europe. Among these, real libraries have played a particularly strategic role in ...documenting all knowledge and providing useful tools for public education. By sharing the same purposes under the same Bourbon dynasty, the libraries of Naples and Madrid have adopted different library models, from printed catalogues to protection measures. By comparing archival documents and little-known bibliographic resources, this contribution reinteprets the historical events that occured during the Bourbon rule and influenced the future of the two cities.
A Man of Three Worlds Garc; Wiegers, Gerard; Beagles, Martin ...
2003, 2003-06-18, 20030101
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In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and ...public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew).
In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes Garc
Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always following a rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. ...This section of the Journal, Review Notes, is the expression of a continuous updating of emerging topics concerning relationships among urban planning, mobility and environment, through a collection of short scientific papers. The Review Notes are made of four parts. Each section examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage within the main interests of TeMA Journal. In particular, the Urban Practices section aims at producing, analyzing and reporting data on recent and relevant policies in the urban domain. The present note in particular reports on the recent initiatives undertaken by two major Southern European capitals to foster sustainable mobility: Rome (IT) and Madrid (ES). To this aim, the note briefly introduces the legal background and current developments of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), a framework developed by the European Commission to support local administrations in developing holistic urban mobility strategies. This is followed by (i) an overview of the mobility situations in Rome and Madrid and by (ii) an analysis of the objectives, the strategies and the measures set in their respective SUMPs. A comparative analysis of the two SUMPs is proposed in the last paragraph as summary factsheet of the contribution.
Madrid on the move Rodríguez-Galindo, Vanesa
2021, 20210202, 2021-02-02
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Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban
experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account
of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and
...locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their
daily lives. Rather than shifting the loci of modernity from Paris
or London to Madrid, this book decentres the concept and explains
the modern experience as part of a more fluid, global phenomenon.
Meanings of the modern were not only dictated by linguistic
authorities and urban technocrats; they were discussed, lived, and
constructed on a daily basis. Cultural actors and audiences
displayed an acute awareness of what being modern entailed and
explored the links between the local and the global, two concepts
and contexts that were being conceived and perceived as
inseparable.
This article aims to answer a provocative question: would higher prices, particularly that of milk, be beneficial for the survival of children under 2 years old? Using a database of more than 230,000 ...births, matched to deaths, we test this hypothesis in the context of a large Mediterranean city, Madrid, in the years 1915–1926. During this period an inflationary crisis spread from 1917 to 1921. We compare child survival, the impact of milk price fluctuations, and the summer mortality peak, controlling for socio-spatial segregation and considering all-cause mortality and mortality due to food- and water-borne illnesses, before, during and after the economic depression. A positive association between increases in the milk price and better chances of survival is statistically robust, but only observed during depression. Several explanations are discussed.
