The level of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on a variety factors, such as magnitude, duration, intensity, time occurrence, and underlying geological features, which may be mitigated reduced the preparedness risk management measures. Geospatial technologies offer means occurrence can predicted or foreshadowed; managed in terms levels preparation related to land use planning; availab...

The paper presents the approach for earthquake hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk assessment for Nepal. The approach amalgamates various scientific streams, which are structured and integrated on GIS platform. The exposure, vulnerability and risk assessment are carried out for primary sectors including population, housing, education, hospital, industry, power and roadways. The risk assess...

In aiming to decrease the number of casualties and people with difficulty in wide-area evacuations due to a large earthquake, it is highly important to visualize and quantify the potential danger in residential areas. In this paper, we construct a multi-agent simulation model, which describes property damage (such as building-collapse, the spread of fire and blocking of streets) and people’s ev...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Considering the history of frequent, and severe, earthquakes in Iran and the importance of health care service delivery by hospitals in these cases, having a plan to deal with disasters should be considered a priority. The aim of this study was the observance of preparedness prerequisites against earthquake in hospitals affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medi...

Peak ground acceleration (PGA) plays an important role in assessing effects of earthquakes on the built environment, persons, and the natural environment. It is a basic parameter of seismic wave motion based on which earthquake resistant building design and construction are made. The level of damage is, among other factors, directly proportional to the severity of the ground acceleration, and i...

⎯ Hazard mitigation and structural dynamics have been important additions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. UCIST (University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables) has worked toward improving educational opportunities in this area for nearly 10 years. For the past 8 years, the US National Science Foundation has sponsored a cyberenvironment project referred to as the Network...

A b s t r a c t To relieve damages of earthquake disaster, " The Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas " have been kicked off in Japan. Our researcb group is a part of the sub-project " modeling of disaster environment for search and rescue " since 2002. In this project, our group aims to develop a three-dimensional mapping's algorithm that is installed in a mobile r...

with the ability to assist people to make reasonable decisions in an emergency, scenario-response paradigm has been widely regarded as one of the most effective emergency management models. In order to promote the processing capacity of scenario information for Emergency Response System (ERS), a new kind of scenario ontology is proposed in this paper. Following the wellknown modeling primitives...