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“Earthquake Spectra,” Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA.] Ground motions such as those shown in Fig. 1 will likely cause severe damage and even collapse of poorly constructed buildings, resulting in serious injuries and fatalities. After major earthquakes, especially those ...
Residents were not warned because the shaking levels were not forecast to be sufficient to cause damage, but some people expressed the desire to be alerted in the future for lower levels of potential felt shaking, not just those thought to be damage-inducing [96]. The concept of a false ...
“Using the example of an earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, that starts in northern California and ruptures toward San Francisco, alerts issued when just light shaking is expected in San Francisco could provide warning times as long as about 48 seconds in advance of when the earthquak...
we just stay in our container homes and do not get out. Our village has become too packed with strangers, and we are afraid of verbal and physical harassment.” (interviewee 6). “I do not feel good about the messy conditions of the village, I used to go out more, but now I feel...
missed, and false alerts. Further, it is not necessary to know the actual costs to the user, just the ratio between the costs of the damage that could be prevented and the cost of taking action. This, in turn, can be replaced with a metric of how false-alert-tolerant the user is. ...
If you are in a car, pull over, stop, and set your parking brake.3. Prepare your home now.Bolt furniture, heaters and appliances, and anything that’s hanging, like artwork or TVs, to the wall. Remove mirrors or heavy shelves from above beds and couches to prevent falling injuries. ...
Ninety-nine percent of all people for whom Japanese is a first language live in Japan27,28, and so searching just by the Japanese language will preferentially select people who were affected by the earthquake, especially in comparison to people speaking English on Twitter, as in our TP-EN ...
Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, said search and rescue is the most urgent need on the ground right now. Around 500 staffers with the humanitarian medical organization are working in the Syrian region — some of whom have family members who were lost in the...
“This team is highly skilled and elite in urban search and rescue and is specially trained to assist in rescue efforts, especially in earthquakes like the one that just struck central or southeast Turkey,” Marrone said. One of the team’s biggest concerns is how they are going to be ab...