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The Psychosocial Response to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

The Medical Journal of Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, 2011
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of Japan, triggering destructive tsunami waves of up to 40 metres high that swept over the north-eastern coast of the country. It was the most powerful earthquake known in the country’s history.
Manabu Yamazaki, Yoshitake Minami, Hajime Sasaki, Manabu Sumi   +3 more
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Analysis of Qiaojia earthquake disasters in the Zhaotong area: Reasons for “small earthquakes and major disasters”

Natural Hazards Research, 2023
In May 2020, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in Qiaojia County, Yunnan. This earthquake was characteristics of relatively common “small earthquakes and major disasters” in the Zhaotong area of northeastern Yunnan.
Wei Wang, Hong Chen, Lisiwen Ma, Yiting Xu, Minhao Qu   +4 more
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Post-earthquake response

Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 1998
The December 1996 issues paper by the Society's Working Party on Integrated Planning for Earthquake Preparedness [1] was widely circulated and received positive feedback from various sectors. As one of a number of follow up activities, the Ministry of Civil Defence asked the Society to investigate and report on the issues associated with establishing a
D. R. Brunsdon, R. B. Shephard
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Modelling psychological responses to the great East Japan earthquake and nuclear incident [PDF]

, 2012
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited - Copyright @ 2012
Sun, Shaojing, Stanley O. Gaines Jr. (161044), Gaines Jr, Stanley O., 高橋, 征仁, Gaines, SO, Shaojing Sun (161036), Robin Goodwin, Takahashi, M, Masahito Takahashi, Robin Goodwin (161022), Masahito Takahashi (161029), Sun, S, Goodwin, R, Shaojing Sun, Goodwin, Robin, Stanley O Gaines   +15 more
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Seismic Response of a Large LNG Storage Tank Based on a Shaking Table Test

Applied Sciences, 2022
In order to study the dynamic response of the LNG storage tank under the action of seismic load and the seismic isolation effect of the lead-core rubber bearing, this paper establishes the experimental storage tank model with reference to the structural ...
Zengshun Chen, Zhengang Xu, Yang Liu, Jun Fu, Huayan Cheng, Likai Zhang, Xuanyi Xue   +6 more
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The impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake [PDF]

Energy Economics, 2017
The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very substantial shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany, an enthusiastic leading proponent of renewable power.
GROSSI, Luigi, Heim, Sven, Waterson, Michael   +2 more
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Rational Use of Idealized Shear-Building Models to Approximate Actual Buildings

Buildings, 2022
The paper aims to investigate the accuracies of idealization methods of the well-known shear-building models. Five idealization methods are adopted to idealize the structural story capacity curve within the range from zero to the deformation ...
Zhanxuan Zuo, Yiting He, Shuang Li
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Research on rescue priority based on high spatiotemporal resolution mobile positioning data

Natural Hazards Research
Estimate the key rescue areas of earthquake accurately, which is of great significance for deploying rescue forces and implementing rescue activities in post-earthquake scientifically.This paper based on the idea of first zoning, then classification, and
Na Gao, Jingjing Liu, Lijuan Yuan
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Post-Earthquake Casualty Transport Optimization

Journal of Transportation and Logistics, 2022
Disasters are one of the deadliest problems faced by humans in their struggle to survive in nature throughout history. This study was carried out for the optimization of the casualty transport process after the earthquake, which is one of the most ...
Salih Özçelik, Halim Kazan
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Response to a high-altitude earthquake: The Yushu Earthquake example [PDF]

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2011
At 07:49, 14 April 2010, the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China was struck by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, with the epicenter located at 33.1° N and 96.7° E and at an altitude of 4300 m, and an epicentral intensity of Modified Mercalli scale IX.
Liu, Jifu, Fan, Yida, Shi, Peijun
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