Damage Photos from the August 24, 2016 Amatrice, Italy M6.2 Earthquake
Amatrice Figure 1. Overhead view of Amatrice. Source: Gregorio Borigo / AP. Figure 2. New areas are relatively unscathed compared to the history center. Source: Gregorio Borigo / AP. Figure 3. Overhead view of Amatrice. Source: CNN. Figure 4. Birds Eye View of Amatrice. Source: CNN. […]
Previous reconnaissance reports for M6.3 L’Aquila Earthquake 2009
EERI Special Earthquake Report: The Mw 6.3 Abruzzo, Italy, Earthquake of April 6,2009 Field observations from the Aquila, Italy Earthquake of April 6, 2009 Structural Engineering Reconnaissance of the April 6, 2009, Abruzzo, Italy, Earthquake, and Lessons Learned Seismic Damage Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Structures After The Abruzzo 2009 Earthquake: The Case Study of the […]
Housing Situation Update, 31 August 2016
“As of August 30th, 2,925 people have been displaced: 970 in the region of Lazio, 1,200 in the region of Marche and 755 in the region of Umbria. There is no official number of missing people as rescue activities are still on-going. On 30 August 2016, the Civil Protection reported 3,554 people have been assisted […]
Hospital and School Damage
Media coverage has reported damage to the hospital in Amatrice due to the earthquake. The NY Timesreported that that the hospital had to be evacuated; however, patients were not injured. The elementary school in Amatrice was also damaged during the earthquake. This school had a seismic retrofit in 2012. The damage to the school and other structures is the […]
Italian Catalogue of Seismic Ground Failures (CEDIT)
Salvatore Martino, Associate Professor in Engineering Geology at the University of Roma “Sapienza,” and his team with the Research Centre for the Geological Risk (CERI) are currently searching for the landslides and other seismic-induced ground affects caused by the 2016 Amatrice earthquake. They have already identified more than 150 ground affects, mainly comprised of rock […]
Push for Mobile Hospitals in Italy
The Amatrice Earthquake highlighted the need for mobile hospitals after an earthquake. The Amatrice Earthquake severely damaged the local hospital causing emergency vehicles to reroute to neighboring towns. Figure 1 shows the state of the hosptial after the earthquake. Figure 1. Amatrice Hospital after the earthquake (photo crowd sourced from Instagram). Italy has been using […]
Italy Earthquake Webinar Briefing on October 28, 2016
Webinar Recordings – Earthquake Resilience: Lessons from the 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence
This webinar was supported with funding under a cooperative agreement (EMW-2016- CA-00091) with FEMA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security. GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF GROUND MOTIONS AND DAMAGE, PAOLO ZIMMARO, UCLA Download Presentation Slides (PDF) RETROFIT AND RETROFIT POLICY, SILVIA MAZZONI, UC BERKELEY Download Presentation Slides (PDF) CASE STUDIES OF CRITICAL FACILITIES, CARMINE GALASSO, UCL […]
Early Response
The Italian Red Cross have been supporting the early response effort by providing search and rescue assistance, first aid, and mobile kitchens. Per ARRL (National Association for Amateur Radio), Italian radio amateurs have been assisting in the response. According to CNN, more than 2,100 Italians are living in makeshift camps. The civil protection agency is actively looking for […]
Up-to-date aftershock catalogs
Recent seismicity lists and maps can be obtained from various places. The various links to web-services use a pre-selected a geographic box that encompasses all of Nepal, namely min latitude = 26.096N, max latitude = 30.581N, min longitude = 79.849E, max longitude = 88.330E. National Seismological Centre of Nepal, magnitude 4 and bigger detected with local […]