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 […]
Observations from EERI/PEER Team
From EERI/PEER Team: Masonry Damage Figure 1. Facades of unreinforced masonry structures show cracks varying in severity, from loss of plaster to separation of the walls from the structure (Figure 1). In this last case, the structural integrity of the wall, the load-bearing system, is compromised. Some of the structures in downtown […]
Anecdotes
After walking through the devastated historic center of Tempera escorted by a firefighter, we saw a man and a woman who were anxiously looking at the fallen buildings. We started talking and asking about the earthquake, and whether their house was affected. We were told that their house was fine, but that the woman’s parents’ […]
Teams in the field
EERI/PEER Team First Name Last Name Team Affiliation David Alexander EERI Paolo Bazzurro EERI (Team Leader) Silvia Bruno EERI Paolo Clemente EERI Mary Comerio PEER Adriano De Sortis EERI Filip Filippou PEER Agostino Goretti EERI Mersedeh Jorjani EERI Fabrizio Mollaioli EERI Khalid Mosalam PEER H. John Price ATC/EERI Marko Schotanus EERI GEER […]
Eye-witness Account from Boat
The most interesting piece of information I’ve gotten in the past day is an account from a family who were in a boat in Pago Pago harbor during the tsunami – courtesy of HSU alum Orion George. The most jarring part of this account to me is the failure to adequately educate people about what to […]
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Photos from EERI Social Impacts Reconnaissance Team
Shelter Damage and fear of aftershocks (or another large earthquake) has displaced over 1 million Haitians from their home. This has resulted in about 315 IDP camps in Haiti sheltering 7-800,000 people. Figure 1. Bourdon bioville (hillside slum) residential damage. Figure 2. National soccer stadium IDP camp (there are many more tents outside the […]
EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team Presentation
Read the Report: February 27, 2010 Chile Earthquake Reconnaissance Team Investigation Steel and Industrial Buildings Team (2.7 MB PDF)
Observations from the EERI Bridge Team
The Bridge Team’s goal for today was to determine the geographical extent of bridge damage from the Chilean earthquakes. We did this by driving nearly 450 miles south along Route 5 (the Pan American Highway) from Santiago to Temuco, keeping along the outer edge of the zone of strong shaking (about 50 miles or so […]
Observations from the EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team
The team left Concepcion at 8:30 AM and drove towards Santiago northbound on Ruta 5. Road was in good condition although the traffic was directed to the southbound roadway due to loss of roadway in the northbound direction e.g., in Miraflores (Figure 4). North of Rancagua we observed several damaged bridges e.g. at Graneros, Libertador […]