Performance of Hospitals: Yos Sudarso
This hospital has 145 beds and provides the full range of medical services including surgery, radiology, and even dental care. There are 7 main buildings on the hospital campus, almost of which are 3-story structures built with concrete moment frames with clay brick infill walls, concrete slab floors, and wood framed pitched roofs. The original […]
Masjid Nurul Iman
The structure was evaluated in the spring of this year as part of a research project by students at Stanford University studying potential tsunami evacuation structures in Padang. Therefore, pre-earthquake photos and partial existing structural drawings were available for review. Figure 1. Masjid Nurul Iman, one of the largest mosques in Padang. Masjid […]
SMK Negeri 9 School
The school serves high school students in 3 main buildings on the campus. The largest of the three buildings, a 3-story structure built in 1996, suffered major damage in the earthquake. We were told by school personnel that 2 people died and 5 others were injured. The other two classroom buildings as well as the […]
LBA LIA – English Learning Center
The building was a 4-story reinforced concrete frame building with brick infill. After the September 30, 2009 earthquake, the first and second story of the building collapsed, resulting in 4 total fatalities. Based on local accounts, 11 were trapped in the collapsed building after the earthquake but 7 of them were able to be saved. […]
No. 52 Parupuak Tabing school
The larger of the two classroom buildings that is at the spine of the “C” was constructed in 1984 and suffered substantial damage in the earthquake. The building was in the process of being renovated and all of the interior transverse cross walls had been removed with the intent that they would soon be replaced. […]
Seismic Performance of Dutch Colonial Buildings
INTRODUCTION As we are aware a lot of the existing old buildings constitute relics of the Dutch colonial period that are 100 – 300 years old, were found particularly in the big cities in Indonesia such as Padang. A large number of these buildings represent constructions of 1 to 3 floors (low-rise buildings), constitute unreinforced […]
Pariaman City Hall
Constructed in 2007, the three-story city government building (Figure 1) experienced significant damage from the earthquake, necessitating all of the offices to be vacated and moved to temporary tents (Figure 2). The exterior cladding, consisting of glass, infill brick partitions, and stucco/plaster finishes, suffered extensive damage (Figures 3-4). Closer inspection from exposed portions of the […]
Very Quick Observations on Damage due to January 9 Earthquake
See the recorded ground motions: Strong motion locations and recordings (Center for Engineering Strong Motion Data) My plan was to go to as many SMIP instrument locations as possible, and to spread out from each looking for damage. I flew up, arriving at the Arcata Airport near McKinleyville at 8:30 AM and began looking, from North […]
Observations on Ongoing Efforts to Address the Haitian Housing Crisis
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PEER Preliminary Reconnaissance Report-12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake
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