background:  this  study  aimed  to  prospectively  analyze  the  effect  of  a  major  earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression,  mixed  anxiety  depression  disorder  (madd),  phobia,  aggressive  behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also sociodemographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in eas...

on april 15, 1979,a destructive earthquake struck the southwestern part of yugoslavia, in which the total damage exceeded 2.7 billion dollars. in this paper, major engineering lessons learned in this earthquake are discussed and illustrated with representative photographs. the main causes of failure of masonary and reinforced concrete buildings are pointed out. effect of architectural design on...

The Chinese Wenchuan earthquake, which happened on the 28th of May in 2008, may leave deep invisible scars in individuals. China has a large number of children and adolescents, who tend to be most vulnerable because they are in an early stage of human development and possible post-traumatic psychological distress may have a life-long consequence. Trauma survivors without post-traumatic stress d...

Besides generating seismic waves, which eventually dissipate, an earthquake also generates a static displacement field everywhere within the Earth. This global displacement field rearranges the Earth's mass distribution, using the Earth's rotational properties and gravitational field to change. The size of these changes depends, in general, upon the size of the earthquake. The Macquarie Ridge e...

Intensive researches in seismology and earthquake engineering are ongoing in Korea since the mid 1990s.This paper summarizes recent R&D; results regarding the improvement of earthquake catalog, seismicityand tectonics, ground motion, and PSHA methodology. The effect of the R&D; results on the seismichazard was studied for the Ulchin NPP site. Results showed much improvement in the...

We quantify the 'permanent' socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities, towns, and wards from Japan over three decades. In order to estimate the counterfactual--i.e., the Kobe economy without the earthquake--we use the synthetic control method. Three important empirical patterns emerge: First, the populati...

BACKGROUND Large earthquakes have been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. In Japan, the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji (H-A) Earthquake was an urban-underground-type earthquake, whereas the 2011 Great East Japan (GEJ) Earthquake was an ocean-trench type. In the present study, we examined how these different earthquake types affected CVD mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS We examine...

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...

Among various indices of earthquake ground motions, the maximum amplitude value and frequency content have been regarded as the most important indices for earthquake engineering. These indices are strongly affected by local site conditions. Also the fact that the duration of earthquake ground motion differs from site to site even during the same earthquake has been noticed by many researchers. ...