Although earthquake disasters are often termed as a 'natural' disaster, a critical analysis reveals that most of them are in fact man-made, and caused by the human activities that are related to poor construction practices in both developed and developing countries. Damage scenarios of recent earthquakes show ample examples in support of this statement. While risk perception is an important iss...

this paper presents a new control method for a three-phase four-wire unified power quality conditioner (upqc) to deal with the problems of power quality under distortional and unbalanced load conditions. the proposed control approach is the combination of instantaneous power theory and synchronous reference frame (srf) theory which is optimized by using a self-tuning filter (stf) and without us...

Background Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) consist of sensors and actors connected through wireless medium. In the network, sensors are used to sense complex events in an environment and actors take intelligent decisions and perform actions as required. Sensors are cheap devices which have low power batteries, slow processing capabilities and short communication range as compared to ...

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The recent Assam Earthquake has been previewed in the context of seismicity pertaining to Kopili Fault northeast India. fault India is known for its active seismicity. ground motion parameters peak acceleration, velocity and spectral acceleration stand out their implications. Considering strong magnitude event, there imminent need earthquake resilient buildings as well hazard mitigation strateg...

China has experienced major earthquakes recently. The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, (Mw =6.1) on 3 August, 2014. On April 20th 2013, Ya’an earthquake (Mw =6.9), on April 14th 2010, Qinghai earthquake (Mw =7.1), on July 9th 2009, Yunnan earthquake (Mw =6.0), and on May 12th 2008, Sichuan earthquake (Mw =7.9) struck China. Among these disasters, the most devastating, the Si...

Encouraging property owners and individuals to adopt mitigation measures improve the resilience of their buildings equipments seismic hazard has been a major challenge in many earthquake- prone countries. Few business leaders are aware fragility supply chains or other critical systems due earthquake hazard. Bridging gap between research production use is another crucial for risk process. The Kn...

This paper first introduces briefly the disasters resulting from major earthquakes and analyze the risk function by examining its variables. It shows that, for earthquake risk, the future is more hazardous than the present and the past The paper then offers a comprehensive list of counter-measures against earthquake risk, from the simple ones dealing with the variables to insurance, reinsurance...

The purpose of this study was to describe how the application mitigation earthquakes for coastal communities by indigenous coast Padang. This uses interviews and literature. reduction is one measures reducing disaster risks through physical development as well awareness increase capacity deal with threat disaster. Disaster management can be viewed from different angles, them based on local wisd...