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Historic Earthquakes in Nepal – Reconnaissance Reports

  Reconnaissance Reports 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake Bihar, India – Nepal1934 January 15 08:43 UTCMagnitude 8.110,700 deaths. Extreme damage (X) in the Sitamarhi-Madhubani, India area, where most buildings tilted or sank up to 1 m (3 ft) into the thick alluvium. Sand covered the sunken floors up to 1 m deep. This liquefaction damage extended eastward […]

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Equipment, Utilities, Architectural Shell & Contents at Kathmandu Hospital

This report details a seismic vulnerability assessment conducted in 2013 for the National Academy of Medical Sciences (Bir Hospital) in Kathmandu, Nepal Bir Hospital Initial Seismic Vulnerability Assessment   Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology Anna Weiser-Woodward is Graduate Engineer at Walter […]

WHE Information on Local Housing Construction

Reports for Nepal: Pillar walaghar (URM infilled RC frame buildings) Traditional oval-shaped rural stone house Uncoarsed rubble stone masonry walls with timber floor and roof Traditional Nawari house in Kathmandu Valley Pillar wala ghar (RC frame with masonry infill); Building typology in Nepal; Reinforced Concrete Buildings WHE Report for Bangladesh: EMSB1- single storied brick masonry […]

The February 6, 2016 ML-6.6 Meinong, Taiwan Earthquake and Lessons Learned

This 27 page special report was prepared in english for the benefit of EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes Program and all EERI members.  It includes sections on an event summary along with assessments of 13 buildings, 1 damaged bridge, and several instances of land subsidence and liquefaction.   Read the The February 6, 2016 ML-6.6 Meinong, […]

EERI Resources for Taiwan

EERI’s Damaged Concrete Buildings Database. Currently the database contains no buildings from Taiwan, however EERI welcomes database submissions for buildings damaged in the Taiwan Earthquake using this CC Data Collection PDF Template (1MB). Contact heidi@eeri.org if you want to contribute. World Housing Encyclopedia Reports for Taiwan Chi-Chi Earthquake EERI LFE Archive: September 21, 1999, M7.7 Northeast Taiwan Earthquake EERI […]

Geotechnical Aspects of the 20th May, 2012 M5.9 Emilia Earthquake, Italy

At 02:03:52 UTC (04:03 local time) of May 20th, 2012 a strong shaking was felt in the Emilia-Romagna Region, in Northern Italy. The magnitude estimates for this event are reported in Table 1. The epicenter was characterized by coordinates 44.89° (latitude) and 11.23° (longitude). The depth of the hypocenter has been estimated as 6.3 km […]