After Aceh’s quake many earthquakes have struck Indonesia alternately and even other disasters have been a threat for every citizen in this country. Actually an everyday occurrence on earth and more than 3 million earthquakes occur every year, about 8,000 a day, or one every 11 seconds in Indonesia there are 5 to 30 quakes prediction everyday. Government’s responsibility to protect the citizen ...

Efficient risk communication is a vital way to reduce the vulnerability of individuals when facing emergency risks, especially regarding earthquakes. Efficient risk communication aims at improving the supply of risk information and fulfilling the need for risk information by individuals. Therefore, an investigation into individual-level information seeking behavior within earthquake risk contex...

This paper investigates the application of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method for the optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) employed for high-rise structures including Soil Structure Interaction (SSI). The model is a 40-story building, and Newmark method is utilized for the structure response to Bam earthquake data. The objective is to decrease both maximum displacement and accelerati...

<p>Regional Indonesia is one of the countries with high seismicity as it located in Ring Fire. This article describes and analyzes regulations concerning earthquake- prone areas on southwest coast Sumatera Island, particularly Bengkulu. Earthquake disaster-related data are taken using library method from several previous research results and<br />disaster reports government agencies...

Earthquakes have strong negative impacts on the development of global economic society. Fortunately, these can be reduced through earthquake-preparedness behaviors. However, existing studies mostly focus driving factors disaster-preparedness behaviors among urban residents, while few consider such rural residents. Based survey data earthquake-prone settlements in China, this study uses probit m...

Abstract Reducing vulnerability and improving resilience of the existing built environment to disaster events is a complex multidisciplinary challenge in which facilities managers need contribute an understanding impact that event could have on both their hard soft facilities. Facilities also identify potential operational, physical corporate adaptations/mitigations can support continued busine...