Research Review Summary of the San Fernando Earthquake

San Fernando Earthquake in 1971 was one of the significant devastating hazards despite a moderate magnitude. Therefore, a substantial number of studies were performed from different perspectives to understand the impact of the earthquake and the behavior of the structures that had structural and non-structural damages. In this study, 383 research documents from 749 authors were downloaded from the web of science and analyzed between 1971 and 2019. This way, the variety of the contents of this research, linkage between them, the contribution of different countries and institutions were established. This study conducts a bibliometric analysis and a review of existing literature on the San Fernando Earthquake, focusing on the last five decades to achieve a better understanding of the research work on this subject. Bibliometric analysis was chosen as a methodology, which enables understanding of the relationship between subsequent studies that were performed within the last half-century. It presents the annual contribution, author and country production and collaboration, citation details, keyword, and content-based analysis in both digital and visual format. It is believed that the study will provide useful information to the researchers, and connect the individual studies to others, and identify the gaps. This study has shown that a disastrous event like 1971 San Fernando Earthquake still leads scientists of today to learn from the mistakes and shed light on the future after 50 years.