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Priority in post-earthquake intervention
TERRITORIO, 2021The paper first examines the three components that summarize the fundamental structure of seismic risk: hazard, exposure, vulnerability (and urban vulnerability). Based on the three components considered, the study highlights the positive elements and strategic errors committed and to explains the paradigm shift necessary to overcome the prevailing ...
Bedini, Maria Angela, Bronzini, Fabio
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Nature Photonics, 2011
Scientists in Japan struggled in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, radiation problems and power cuts. Nevertheless, they have now largely recovered from the desperate situation.
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Scientists in Japan struggled in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, radiation problems and power cuts. Nevertheless, they have now largely recovered from the desperate situation.
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Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Development Surge
Sociology of Development, 2022This article expands the sociology of development literature by unpacking how the influx of hundreds of NGOs and INGOs following Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes operated as an unprecedented “post-disaster development surge.” Reframing reconstruction as development renders visible the linkages, continuations, and ruptures between the post-earthquake ...
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Enhancing post‐earthquake disaster resilience
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 2011PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a multi‐year assistance plan aimed at promoting a disaster resilient and foreign‐aid‐independent community in rural Peru in the wake of the August 2007 Peru earthquake.Design/methodology/approachA collaborative effort among students and professionals from several fields including engineering, public health,
Jacob Tyler, Amarjit Singh
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Post-earthquake Recovery in Nepal
2020In 2015, a massive earthquake of 7.8 and 7.4 magnitude struck Nepal. This resulted in severe economic and infrastructural damage, not to mention many human casualties. The government of Nepal has identified 625,000 houses as fully destroyed and 180,000 houses as being partially damaged (PDNA Vol B, Post disaster needs assessment – sector reports ...
Rupesh Shrestha +2 more
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Resiliency and post‐earthquake realignment
The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 2021SummaryAlthough the mechanics of free‐standing rocking cores have been amply investigated and that numerous replaceable energy dissipating devices with recentring capabilities have been proposed, the literature on complete sustainable earthquake resistant structures has not been fully developed.
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Post-Earthquake Dilatancy Recovery
Geology, 1974Geodetic measurements of the 1964 Niigata, Japan earthquake and of three other examples are briefly examined. They show exponentially decaying subsidence for a year after the quakes. The observations confirm the dilatancy-fluid diffusion model of earthquake precursors and clarify the extent and properties of the dilatant zone.
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Post-Earthquake Japan Equity Update
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011This paper looks through the lens of the Barra Japan Equity model (JPE3) to analyze how the Japan equity market reacted to the recent earthquake on March 11. We also review the Japan equity market just after Kobe Earthquake in 1995, and see if there are similarities or differences in the behavior of Japanese stocks after these two events from a style ...
Hidenori Shimizu, David T. Owyong
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Instrumentation and post-earthquake inspections
2023Abstract As will be clear from Chapter 17, there is not only a need for close monitoring of the dam itself, but also for monitoring of possible landslide areas upstream. Instructions for all monitoring need to be set out in the Instrumentation, Monitoring and Surveillance Plan and proper training given to the operatives and engineers ...
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Recovery of HIV service provision post-earthquake
AIDS, 2012To describe the level of functionality of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported HIV clinical services following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010.Available program-monitoring data from sites providing voluntary counseling and testing for HIV (VCT), antenatal care (ANC) and prevention of mother-to-child
Jenny A, Walldorf +7 more
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