MRP Engineering Summary Report
Read the Report: Engineering Summary Report of the M6 South Napa Earthquake August 24, 2014 (0.75 MB PDF)
Performance of Buildings and Nonstructural Components
Read the Report: Performance of Buildings and Nonstructural Components in the 2014 South Napa Earthquake (112.0 MB PDF)
SEAOC PDPOC EPEP Presentations and Reports
SEAOC EPEP After-Action Retrospective: 2014 South Napa Earthquake by S. Adan, J. Hunt (October 2016) SEAOC PDPOC EPEP Preliminary Presentation on South Napa Earthquake by Jeffrey Hunt, Exponent SEAOC PDPOC EPEP report on South Napa Earthquake Damage near Seimsmic Stations in Vallejo and Napa College by Jeffrey Kovach, Bevier Structural Engineering
South Napa Earthquake Reconnaissance, August 24, 2014
Read the Report: Sunday August 24th Structural Reconnaissance Overview in American Canyon, Napa, and Vallejo (7.4 MB PDF)
Field team survey of a school in Falerone (FM)
Translation from Italian to English by Elide Pantoli (University of California, San Diego) Date: August 30th 2016 Building typology: Load-bearing masonry Municipality: Falerone (FM) – Don Bosco high-school […]
Damage to RC buildings
Hotel Roma Figure 1. Source: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/08/25/actualidad/1472151743_796100.html Figure 2. Source: http://lopezdoriga.com/internacional/nuevo-temblor-en-italia-causa-mas-danos/ More structures Figure 3. Source: HTTP://ELPAIS.COM/ELPAIS/2016/08/25/ALBUM/1472109284_305734.HTML#1472109284_305734_1472146225 Figure 4. Source: HTTP://WWW.REPUBBLICA.IT/CRONACA/2016/09/03/NEWS/TERREMOTO_SCOSSA_DI_MAGNITUDO_4_3_IN_PROVINCIA_DI_PERUGIA_ALLE_3_34-147091529/?REFRESH_CE
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]