EERI Blog post.
March 12, 2011. Earhtquake Engineering Research Institute.
This graphic was published in Saturday’s March 12, 2011 local paper indicating where deaths occurred.
The majority of the deaths were in nonductile concrete frame buildings. Second were in unretrofitted URM buildings. At least one death occurred in a retrofitted URM building. More study of this with Tom Kirsch, our epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins is recommended.
Figure 1.
Learning from Earthquakes: First person reports
