In the last 20 years, agencies and departments in the State of California have initiated seismic vulnerability programs for state-owned buildings with goals ranging from life safety to reduced post-earthquake disruption. Until now, there has not been an assessment of all state-owned buildings with the goal of identifying and assessing the seismic vulnerability of those buildings needed for resp...

The widespread earthquake damage to the built environment induces severe short- and long-term societal consequences. Better community resilience may be achieved through well-organized recovery. Decisions organize recovery process are taken under intense time pressure using limited, potentially inaccurate, data on severity spatial distribution of building damage. We propose use Gaussian Process ...

This paper documents the culture-specific understanding of social capital among Haitians and examines its benefits and downsides in post-disaster shelter recovery following the 12 January 2010 earthquake. The case study of shelter recovery processes in three socioeconomically diverse communities (Pétion-Ville, Delmas and Canapé Vert) in Port-au-Prince suggests that social capital plays dual rol...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami that occurred in March 2011 caused major damage Tohoku region. It is implicitly assumed there a local community reconstruction after Earthquake, but itself has suffered great damage. members themselves are residents who victims of disaster, physical situation area changed significantly due to projects such as relocation. Capturing recovery also an...

In 2020, European countries generated 807 mln tons of construction and demolition waste (CDW), accounting for 37.5% total production. The UE Waste Framework Directive 2008 established as a priority goal to increase the percentage reuse, recycling recovery nonhazardous minimum 70% by 2020. Pending report that will define compliance with this goal, average currently stands at around 50%, which on...

We introduce here the Earthquake Network project which implements a world-wide smartphone-based sensor network for the detection of earthquakes. Thanks to the accelerometric sensor, smartphones possibly detect the waves of a quake and report the event to a cloud computing infrastructure. In this work, we propose a solution to the detection problem based on statistical modelling the arrival time...