SEAOC Safety Assessment Program Comparisons with EU and Japan Programs
Representatives from Spain, Portugal, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, U.S. and Japan participated with Italians in the exercise. During that week, Italy’s Civil Protection Department was beginning to conduct AeDES safety assessment surveys of buildings inside the Red Zone, area of downtown L’Aquila that the Mayor had decided to restrict public access until such time […]
Emergency Management in this event
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Basic Earthquake Information
Shaking felt in Rome, but no damage reported there 26 cities and towns reporting damage over 230 square miles as of Noon PDT 4/9/09. 283 officially declared dead and 1000+ estimated injured, and 10 still missing as of Noon PDT 4/9/09. 100 of the injured are in critical condition. 500 injured were treated in hospitals. St. Salvatore […]
Google map showing affected areas
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Main Shock Time Histories from station AQV (provided by M.Celebi, USGS)
Figure 1. Seismic record in AQV station. Figure 2. Amplitude spectra in AQV station.
Anecdotes
After walking through the devastated historic center of Tempera escorted by a firefighter, we saw a man and a woman who were anxiously looking at the fallen buildings. We started talking and asking about the earthquake, and whether their house was affected. We were told that their house was fine, but that the woman’s parents’ […]
EEFIT UK Team Draft Report Ready + Virtual Disaster Viewer
Read the report: A preliminary field report by EEFIT (3.8 MB PDF) The georeferenced images are presented together with pre- and post- earthquake satellite images and existing mapped faults. We have not finished uploading our photos yet, but a selection is there. If any other team would like to use this facility to upload info please […]
Preliminary Report on the Seismological and Geotechnical Aspects of the April 6 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake in Central Italy
Read the report: Preliminary Report on the Seismological and Geotechnical Aspects of the April 6 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake in Central Italy (25 MB PDF)
Latest Quick Response Report Gives a Glimpse of L’Aquila Vulnerability
Read the Report: Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings and their Occupants in the 2009 L’aquila, Italy Earthquake (5.1 MB PDF) The fieldwork, funded by the Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Program, will be the basis for a National Science Foundation RAPID research project on progress and priorities in L’Aquila’s recovery and reconstruction. The original research team […]
Teams in the field
EERI/PEER Team First Name Last Name Team Affiliation David Alexander EERI Paolo Bazzurro EERI (Team Leader) Silvia Bruno EERI Paolo Clemente EERI Mary Comerio PEER Adriano De Sortis EERI Filip Filippou PEER Agostino Goretti EERI Mersedeh Jorjani EERI Fabrizio Mollaioli EERI Khalid Mosalam PEER H. John Price ATC/EERI Marko Schotanus EERI GEER […]