Jembatan Siti Nurbaya bridge
Jembatan Siti Nurbaya is the most substantial bridge over the Batang Arau, located at the South of the city center spanning roughly 70m. The bridge is approximately 10m wide and is a standard concrete box girder. The bridge itself faired very well in the September 30th earthquake with no apparent damage. The approaches, which consist […]
Performance of Hospitals: M. Djamil
There are 13 separate buildings on the campus and two of them, the outpatient services building and the building that include the laboratories, sustained substantial structural damage. Despite this, M. Djamil has remained open to patients following the earthquake. The hospital also sustained minor damage in the 2007 earthquakes. The significant earthquake damage was to the […]
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. […]
Padang Fire Department and Early Search and Rescue Operations
The Fire Department had practiced a preparedness drill in February, 2009 that improved performance in the 9/30 and 10/1 earthquakes. The training for preparedness included all city agencies and proved quite effective. The City of Padang now has a new form of preparedness planning under the BPPD (City Planning Department). The Fire Department is the […]
Lake Maninjau Landslides
The southern quarter of the lake experienced much greater ground motion than the rest of the lake , and this resulted in majorlandsliding on the southern rim of the crater. Approximately 25% of the southern rim experienced slides, burying parts of villages and displacing at least 2000 residents. Most of the slides were not extremely […]
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 […]