Since 1900, around 90,000 people have lost their lives in 76 earthquakes in Turkey, with a total affected population of around 7 million and direct losses of around 25 billion USD. Based on a time-dependent model that includes coseismic and post-seismic effects of the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake with moment magnitude Mw = 7.4, Parsons (J Geophys Res. 109, 2004) concluded that the probability of an ...

Performance-based earthquake engineering organizes the explicit quantification of building seismic performance and risk, facilitating risk-informed design mitigation decisions. However, little work has been done to benchmark outcomes from these procedures with available empirical evidence past earthquakes. In this study, we end-to-end FEMA P-58 performance-based methodology against data Califor...

In this paper, we present the results of several case studies using InSAR techniques from high resolution RADARSAT to monitor active landslides triggered by earthquakes and other geomorphic processes. Our results have shown that our InSAR results were used that facilitate mitigation efforts along strategic transportation and energy corridors as well as reconstruction efforts in earthquake damag...

Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are used to provide timely alerts on ongoing earthquakes, which can facilitate important risk-mitigation actions before potentially damaging seismic waves reach target sites. A major shortcoming of existing EEW approaches is that the earthquake-related conditions for activating not generally defined according a formal decision-support system (DSS) accounts...

Computational disaster mitigation and reduction research unit is aimed at developing advanced largescale numerical simulation of natural disasters such as an earthquake, tsunami and heavy rain, for Kobe City and other urban areas in Hyogo Prefecture. Besides for the construction of a sophisticated urban area model and the development of new numerical codes, the unit seeks to be a bridge between...

The on-site earthquake early warning system is under development for the area near the earthquake epicenter to provide information such as earthquake magnitude, the arrival time and the intensity of the strong shaking for free field as well as the structural response, etc. The real-time strong motion signals recorded from Taiwan Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (TSMIP) were used to train n...

Probabilistic risk models for natural hazards, or catastrophe models, are indispensable tools forecasting and quantifying the impacts of cascading compounding earthquake-tsunami hazards. Their applications facilitate improved disaster mitigation management. Uncertainties associated with forecasted multi-hazard can be substantial, practitioners policymakers need guidance on implementing reductio...

Emergency management is a diverse field. Effective disaster management involves knowledge of various subjects as well as work experience in all aspects related to mitigation, planning, response, and recovery efforts. One field not being fully exploited by disaster management is the use of geospatial tools in the form of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cartography, and geovisualization. On...