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USAID Türkiye and Syria – Earthquakes Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet #9: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-9-fiscal-year-fy-2023-march-2-2023 Fact Sheet #8: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-8-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-28-2023 Fact Sheet #7: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-7-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-23-2023 Fact Sheet #6: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-6-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-21-2023 Fact Sheet #5: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-5-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-16-2023 Fact Sheet #4: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-4-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-14-2023 Fact Sheet #3: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-3-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-12-2023 Fact Sheet #2: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-2-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-9-2023 Fact Sheet #1: https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes-fact-sheet-1-fiscal-year-fy-2023-february-7-2023

2020 NEC Presentations: Clearinghouses, Emergency Response, and Aftershocks

Clearinghouses Presentation Title: 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Clearinghouse Lessons Learned and Opportunities Speaker: Cindy Pridmore, CA Geological Survey Emergency Response  Presentation Title: Responding to the Ridgecrest Earthquake SequenceSpeaker: Jed McLaughlin Chief of Police, Ridgecrest Presentation Title: Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Post-Earthquake Assessment after the 2019 M6.4 and M7.1 EarthquakesSpeaker: Daniel Zepeda, Degenkolb Engineer Aftershocks  Presentation Title: Failure to alert? Exploring Perceptions of ShakeAlert During the 2019 […]

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 […]

Preliminary reconnaissance in the immediate aftermath of the event – August 24, 2016

Photos and corresponding observations date back to the day of the main shock (August, 24 – Arquata del Tronto and Pescara del Tronto municipalities) and the day after (August, 25 – other municipalities), when the area stricken (apart from Amatrice municipality) were still accessible. Due to that, in the vast majority of the cases, the […]