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Now, results are in from the M9 project, a four-year effort to better estimate shaking in Seattle from a magnitude 9 Cascadia quake — and the news is not reassuring. Researchers found the sedimentary basin under the city can amplify the type of ground motion that’s hardest on high-rises by a factor of two to five — mu…
By Kimberly Veklerov
The Oakland City Council on Friday unanimously passed an ordinance that will require property owners to add seismic retrofits to soft-story apartment buildings in the next six years.
The city law applies to certain types of old, wood-frame residences with at least two stories and five or more units. Soft…
By Robert Muir-Wood
I am in Wellington, New Zealand, looking out from a rainy hotel window high over the city, admiring the older wooden houses on the forested slopes. Below there are four to eight story office and retail buildings, a number of which are shrouded in scaffolding, still repairing damage from the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. The earthquake e…
This document evaluates the progress of risk management in Colombia proposes recommendations that will enable the Government to set up public policies in this area on a short-and long-term basis. It defines a set of recommendations so that disaster risk management becomes a State policy, emphasizing that improving land use and land occupation conditions…
El cuyo objetivo de este estudio es analizar el riesgo de la ciudad de Lima y Callao, con énfasis en seis distritos representativos: San Juan de Lurigancho, Villa El Salvador, Puente Piedra, Comas, Chorrillos y La Molina. Los resultados obtenidos en este estudio constituye información privilegiada sobre el riesgo sísmico a nivel de detalle, que permite…
In partnership with: California Geological Survey, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
While scientists can't predict when a great earthquake producing a pan-Pacific tsunami will occur, thanks to new tools being developed by federal and state officials, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts when tsunamis…
Quake-resistant buildings are the buzzword again after the April 11 8.6-magnitude earthquake off northern Sumatra
In Japan earthquake resistant technology (like damping or vertical seismic isolation devices) are common features in the latest architecture of buildings. Early warning is also highly developed, yet, traditional wisdom and education still p…
By Chen Liuting
The meeting room in the Guangzhou Academy of Governance is packed with 20 government officials. These officials are in charge of emergency management in Guangzhou, a city of over 12 million located in the Pearl River Delta of southern China. The situation in the room is tense. The officials have just learned that unexpected heavy rain f…
By Jo Scheuer
For the first time in history, a majority of the global population is urban, and this number is expected to rise. This isn’t necessarily bad — great cities can offer many benefits, especially when urban planning is prioritized. But cities present challenges when urban growth is fast, unplanned and unmanaged.
These challenges include high…
In her article for the Financial Times, Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Programme and former prime minister of New Zealand, praises Haiti's efforts to build back a more resilient country with 'urban ingenuity.' Talking about a UNDP and Haiti government initiative which has registered around 20,000 people, with 5,000 are being trained in…
"The Japanese government is advancing the ‘Future City’ model of urban planning with state-of-the-art environmental sustainability, strong disaster resilience and superb livability,” said Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) as reported by Daily Times. Mr Gemba announced that Japan…
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O Canal Lisboa é um meio de informação e divulgação, propriedade do Turismo de Lisboa, com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, que visa informar os habitantes e os visitantes da cidade sobre temas de interesse geral, municipal, cultural e turístico. Através de uma rede alargada de 18 vídeo painéis, proporciona uma ampla cobertura das…
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Construction and earthquake expert Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury, urban expert Prof Nazrul Islam, architect and urban planner Iqbal Habib, and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Civil Engineering Department Prof Mehedi Ahmed Ansari attributed the rise in fire incidents to: unplanned urbanization, the violation of building c…
This document provides guidance for urban planners on how to use land use management-related tools to reduce disaster risk and contribute to strengthening urban resilience and sustainable urban development. The guidance is illustrated through case studies showing examples where urban land use management-related tools have been adopted to redu…
Erdkunde 2015, Vol 69, Issue 4, 307-325, doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2015.04.02:
Taking Musikot in Nepal as a characteristic case study of rapid urban change, this article analyses its increasing local earthquake-risk in light of insufficient seismic building code implementation and risk-sensitive urban planning. Applying an approach that combines repeat phot…