About one year prior to the earthquake, the JMA’s Committee on Emergency and Disaster Medicine proposed that Japan Medical Association Team (JMAT) be formed and issued a press release to that effect. The JMA decided to form JMAT on March 15, 2011, in response to the earthquake, and requested that prefectural medical associations nationwide send JMAT to the affected areas as emergency medical re...

BACKGROUND In this study, exposure refers to survivors who suffered from life-changing situations, such as personal injuries, the deaths or injury of family members, relatives or friends or the loss of or damage to personal or family property, as a result of the earthquake. The mediating effect of risk perception on the exposure and psychological health in survivors from the Longmen Shan Fault ...

PURPOSE This study longitudinally investigated the changes of depressive symptoms among adolescent survivors over 2 years and a half after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China, as well as the predictive effects of demographic characteristics, earthquake exposure, negative life events, social support, and dispositional resilience on the risk of depressive symptoms at two time points after the e...

Dynamic rupture process of earthquake fault and its near-field strong ground motions are simulated by time-space-decoupled, explicit finite element method with multi-transmitting formula (MTF) of artificial boundary in this paper. This decoupled, explicit method has advantage to easily incorporate into time-step simulation of dynamic rupture process on earthquake fault, as well as wave motions....

PURPOSE To examine the associations between trauma severity, trait resilience, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms among adolescent survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake, China. METHODS 788 participants were randomly selected from secondary schools in the counties of Wenchuan and Maoxian, the two areas most severely affected by the earthquake. Participants complete...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that maternal exposure to acute stress has a negative impact on the duration of pregnancy, and that this effect may vary by the time of exposure. It has also been proposed that stress exposure reduces the ratio of male-to-female births. To date, no study has jointly examined both outcomes, although they may be strongly related. Using population-level data w...

there are large areas of the world where seismicity is high while they form the whole or parts of urban conglomeration. iran can be literally compared to a large shaking table; various parts of it have been stricken by earthquake in the last four decades(1). tehran is also expected to have a major earthquake in the near future(2). therefore, urban design criteria for earthquake preparedness i...