Recent advances are improving the speed and accuracy of loss estimates immediately after earthquakes (within less than an hour) so that injured people may be rescued more efficiently. "Casualties" are defined as fatalities and injured people, which are due to damage to occupied buildings. After major and large earthquakes, rescue agencies and civil defense managers rapidly need quantitative estimates of the extent of the potential disaster, at a time when information from the affected area may not yet have reached the outside world. For the injured below the rubble every minute counts.To rapidly provide estimates of the extent of an earthquake disaster is much less of a problem in industrialized than in developing countries. This article focuses on how one can estimate earthquake losses in
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- Figure 3: Sketch, illustrating the difference in damage due to varying soil conditions within a settlement. (en)
- Wenchuan earthquake (en)
- l’Aquila earthquake (en)
- Figure 8: 3D model of a section of Dubai along the waterfront in which photographs of the facades shot from street level were added. Based on this information a more detailed model for the earthquake resistance of the built environment can be generated . (en)
- Figure 2: Examples of attenuation of Intensity as a function of distance from the earthquake source for an M7 event The various curves shown are valid for different depth. The dangerous intensities, I ≥ VII, occur only at distances shorter than 30 to 50 km. (en)
- Figure 9: Estimated % of casualties by district of Lima in case of an M8 earthquake offshore along the Pacific megathrust. The results were used for conducting civil defense exercises preparing for an earthquake disaster . (en)
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- Figure 4: Examples of distributions of buildings and population in these buildings. The building classes are those of the EMS98 scale with A the weakest and F the strongest. The weak constructions of classes A and B are largely absent in the industrialize world. (en)
- Figure 5: Examples of collapse rates as a function of intensity of shaking. The building type from A to F is the parameter. The curves showing high probabilities of collapse at low and medium intensities are absent in the industrialized world. (en)
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- Exemple_intensityM7.jpg (en)
- Fatality_reprt_w_time_LAquila.jpg (en)
- Lima_mortality_M8.jpg (en)
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| - Recent advances are improving the speed and accuracy of loss estimates immediately after earthquakes (within less than an hour) so that injured people may be rescued more efficiently. "Casualties" are defined as fatalities and injured people, which are due to damage to occupied buildings. After major and large earthquakes, rescue agencies and civil defense managers rapidly need quantitative estimates of the extent of the potential disaster, at a time when information from the affected area may not yet have reached the outside world. For the injured below the rubble every minute counts.To rapidly provide estimates of the extent of an earthquake disaster is much less of a problem in industrialized than in developing countries. This article focuses on how one can estimate earthquake losses in developing countries in real time. (en)
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