Developing an Interface Platform for Earthquake Engineering Application and Webbased Virtual Reality Interaction System for Seismic hazards: Towards Disaster Mitigation in Metropolises

Rapid growth computer technologies, especially the Internet provide human beings new measures to deal with engineering and social problems which were hard to solve in traditional ways. This paper presents a prototype of an application platform based on the Internet for civil engineering considering building an information system of risk communication and disaster mitigation for metropolises.