It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the compute...

This paper is about short review of earthquake statistics and efforts for earthquake mitigation, hazard and risk assessment studies in Pakistan. Pakistan and adjoining region lying between longitude 60 ̊E to 78 ̊E and latitude 20 ̊N to 45 ̊N are selected for the study as this region has a history of many large earthquakes because of its location in the region of intersection of three plates namely ...

The recent large earthquakes have emphasized the importance of earthquake loss mitigation and how earthquake early warning (EEW) systems can help. An EEW system detects an earthquake initiation based on a seismic sensor network and broadcasts a warning of the predicted location and magnitude shortly before an earthquake hits a site. The typical range of this lead time is around tens of seconds ...

Journal in Earthquake Engineering The 1994 volume (Volume 24) of the Abstract Journal in Eartb-quake Engineering provides comprehensive access to 1994 worldliterature in earthquake engineering and hazards mitigation. Thevolume contains 2,400 abstracts from technical journals, researchreports, books, monographs and other publications of academic,professional and governmental ...

Local preparedness against earthquakes has been recently highlighted in research and policies on disaster management and risk reduction promotion in Iran. To advance the understanding of public preparedness and how it can be applied in diverse localities, further information is required about the predictors of people’s adoption of mitigation activities and earthquake preparedness. A synth...

The ShakeOut Scenario assessed earth-science impacts, physical damage, and socioeconomic impacts of a hypothetical M7.8 southern San Andreas Fault earthquake. Among many detailed studies were special studies of 12 lifelines, 7 of which were performed by panels of employees of the utilities at risk. Panels met for four hours. Panelists were presented with the scenario’s earth science impacts and...

The importance of our infrastructure systems as the foundations for our civilization, maintaining the health of our society and serving as the engines for our economy has been articulated by the NSF and other government agencies since the 1970’s. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), created by the US Congress by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 was based on rec...

As an aspiring global city, Istanbul is at the crossroads of capital, political struggle, and socioeconomic transformation. Unfortunately, also major active fault lines. This paper analyzes earthquake risk mitigation planning for megacity since last big seismic catastrophe Marmara Earthquakes in 1999 that hit region, including Istanbul. We use concept riskscape to explore technocratic construct...

Women are part of a vulnerable group. Earthquake mitigation is very important for women to deal with disaster hazards. The prisoner status that some have, further increases their risk becoming an earthquake victim. needed increase prisoner’s knowledge and skill eartquake at prison. However, several Women's Prisons in Indonesian still facing challenges, including Lapas Perempuan Kelas IIB Yogyak...