WHE Information on Local Housing Construction
The World Housing Encyclopedia provides technical information on the types, engineering, behavior during earthquakes, and retrofit strategies for housing around the world. Numerous resources existed prior to the August 24, 2016 Norcia, Italy Earthquake regarding masonry-type structures in Central Italy, the location of the epicenter of the earthquake. The reports are as follows: Single-family stone masonry houses […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reconnaissance in the area stricken by the event – August 28, 2016
This post presents some photos and observations from Andrea Barocci, P.E. when he visited damaged buildings and churches in the area stricken by the seismic sequence. The different types of damage mechanisms encountered during his reconnaissance, which was undertaken a few days after the main shock (August, 28th), are reported in the following. Field observation […]
Onna vs. Monticchio
Figure 1. Onna. Monticchio and Onna are about a mile apart, and have a similar building stock of stone masonry buildings in the historical centers. It is interesting to see how different these two villages performed, given the structural similarity. Onna suffered badly in the earthquake. Almost all buildings in the historical […]
Observations on Ongoing Efforts to Address the Haitian Housing Crisis
Read the Report: Observations on Ongoing Efforts to Address the Haitian Housing Crisis (227 kB PDF) View Photos: Photos
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 […]
Observations from the EERI Social Science & Policy Team
View the observationst: EERI Social Science & Policy Team Observations (2.92 MB PDF)
Reconstruction Information and Resources
This website showcases severely damaged reinforced high-rises in Santiago: CIPER – Centro de Investigacion e Informacion Periodistica This site offers specifications that guide the reconstruction of damaged homes: Chile Government: Serviu Region Del Maule The site presents the Chilean emergency reconstruction program: Ministry of Housing and Urbanity, Government of Chile