There are thousands of kilometers of lifelines in our country and this can be expanded to millions
of kilometers of lifelines, both onshore and offshore, worldwide. Interruption of the services of
these lifelines due to earthquakes gives serious harms in terms of safety and well-being. Once the
pipeline fails, this causes a great deal of operating losses. These losses result from damaged
equipment, repair and cleanup operations and loss of revenue from unrecoverable product (ASCE,
1984). Also fire and explosion are some of the consequences of hydrocarbon pipelines failure,
since the combustible nature of these products.