2010 LIMA DECLARATION

Cultural heritage professionals, architects, archaeologists, structural engineers and other specialists from Peru and Japan met during the “Symposium on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage. Sustainable Conservation of Urban Cultural Heritage in Seismic Zones. The symposium aimed to share postdisaster recovery experience and discuss the role of structural engineers and conservation architects” for the protection of Cultural Heritage located in earthquake zones. World is divided into seismic and non seismic areas. Earthquakes occur mainly along two big circles: The Circumpacific where more than 95% of seismic energy is dissipated and the Eurasian circle.