Photos of recovery & rebuilding
Figure 1. Cash-for-work cleanup crew, Nerette, Petionville. Figure 2. Life goes on, Port-au-Prince. Figure 3. Salvaging materials, Holy Trinity Church. Figure 4. Fonkoze microfinance NGO, hard at […]
Moratorium on Social Science Research
Enquiries were made about the activities of the social scientist traveling with EERI LFE. Following conversations with those concerned (David Johnstone (GNS) and Sarah Beaven (University of Canterbury)) the social science research statement was revised from recommending delaying social scientist visits to recognizing that social scientists are embedded in the EERI LFE team for the […]
Population’s perception of the 2015 Illapel’s earthquake
Personally, I (Ericson) was in Chile when the earthquake and the aftershocks struck, I was in Santiago on a second floor of a residential house. The house’s structure is based on confined masonry for the first floor and wood for the second one. Despite its magnitude, the Illapel’s earthquake felt different than what I was used […]
Social Impacts, September 25, 2017
Figure 1. “The Government of Mexico (GoM) continues to coordinate a response to the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck central Mexico on September 19, resulting in at least 325 deaths, injuring more than 4,800 people, and damaging more than 41,700 buildings in Mexico, Morelos, and Puebla states. The majority of casualties occurred […]
Earthquake Early Warning and Public Policy
Real-Time Earthquake Early Warning and Public Policy: A Report on Mexico’s City’s Sistema de Alerta Sismica By Jim Goltz and Paul Flores