EARTHQUAKE ASSOCIATIONS’ WEBSITES: VISIBILITY AND CO-LINKS ANALYSIS

The main objective of the present research is the study of the visibility extent and co-links analysis of the Earthquake Associations’ websites in all around the world and identifying the core websites of these associations. Between earthquake associations’ websites, we could not see relation and strong links. Most of 20 studied websites have weak traffic visit. Survey on back links of earthquake engineering websitesʹ shows that Italian National Association of Earthquake Engineering with 442318 back links is the most highly linked among studied websites. Investigations showed that from the 20 examined websites of this research, 3 websites have more than 43348.65 back links. The webpage of these associations are core websites in the field of earthquake association’s websites. These associations are Italian National Association of Earthquake Engineering, Australian earthquake engineering society –AEES, Spanish Association for Earthquake Engineering.