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Earthquakes and landslides pose significant threats to human ... systems. However, the high construction costs of earthquake early warning systems present a challenge.
On September 5, 2022, an Ms 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous ... The casualties and economic losses caused by the earthquake are huge. Most of the landslides triggered by this earthquake
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake triggered many rapid and long runout landslides, ... large percentage of total damages caused by the earthquake. It is very important for the purposes ... landslide disaster preventio...
The unique geography and fragile geological condition have made Nepal more prone to various types of disasters. The 2015 Gorkha Earthquake had a serious effect on one-third ... with the situations. After the 2015...
The 2019 Mw 7.0 Banten, Indonesia, earthquake occurred at a 49 km depth in ... data to analyse the fault source of the earthquake. Following the earthquake’s focal mechanism, we modelled a total...Mw 7.0 Banten, ...
Earthquake is one of the most destructive natural ... and five-year impacts of the 2015 Ranau Earthquake (6.0 Mw) on river systems ... state of Sabah, a region of low earthquake hazard.
On September 30, 2009, extensive landslides occurred in Tandikat, Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia, burying hundreds of people, and flattening some villages after a Mw 7.6 earthquake hit ...
A 6.6-Mw earthquake struck the Iburi region of Hokkaido, Japan ... Mizuho landslides, respectively. Unlike previous research on earthquake-induced landslides, which were investigated using mechanical ... and dry ...
Microzonation becomes important for big cities like Medan (North Sumatra, Indonesia) as population agglomeration increases in urban areas resulting in rapid and unplanned construction. Mitigation efforts must be ...
On September 6th, 2018, at 3:07 local time, a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw...= 6.6 struck the east Iburi region in Hokkaido, Japan. Many serious damages such as landslide, liquefaction and collapse of houses...
On September 28th, 2018, at 18:02 local time (10:02 UTC), a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw = 7.5 struck Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The epicenter was located at 0.256o south latitude and 119.846o...e...
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The 2015.4.25 Gorkha earthquake affected about eight million people in Nepal. ... effects on the severe damage caused by this earthquake.
This study focuses on two weak points of the present procedure to carry out microzoning study in near-field areas: (1) the Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs), commonly used in the reference seismic hazard...
A large earthquake struck Padang Province, West Sumatra, Indonesia, ... 17:16 on September 30, 2009. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of Mw 7. ... The unfortunate combination of intensive rainfall and strong...
On November 21, 2022, a magnitude Mw 5.6 earthquake struck Cianjur Regency in the West Java ... active fault zone. The consequences of this earthquake in Cianjur were severe, leading to both...
Geotechnical studies are carried out to investigate the location and magnitude of a prehistoric earthquake in eastern Canada. Previous studies identified 12 ... were hypothesized to have been triggered by an earthquake
The main objective of this study is to understand the overall impact of earthquake in upper Indrawati Watershed, located in the ... distance to fault, and flow accumulation. The earthquake-induced landslide is cl...
The initial phase of earthquake hazard assessment involves the consolidation of diverse...
In April 2016, Kumamoto City, Japan, and its surroundings were hit by a sequence of strong and devastating earthquakes including two significant events, one on April...th, 2016, at 21:26 JST (Mw6.2) and the other...
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake triggered many fast landslides in Kyushu Region, ... damages and increased difficulty of rescue after the earthquake. The post-failure behavior analysis of the earthquake-triggered la...
The frequency of landslide disasters is increasing as a result of exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, and greater population vulnerability due to growing urbanization and uncontrolled land-use. Earthquakes
Assessment of historical earthquake events helps in revealing its distribution and ... This study investigates the spatio-temporal distribution of earthquake events taking place in UAE and its...
In this paper, we estimate the seismogenic energy during the Nepal Earthquake (25 April 2015) and studied the ... various fields like compression, time-frequency analysis, earthquake parameter determination, clim...
This paper reviews the classical and some particular factors contributing to earthquake-triggered landslide activity. This analysis should help ... be paid to the effects of deep focal earthquakes in Central Asia...
The city of Banda Aceh stands on Holocene fluvial basin sediment, surrounded by the Aceh and Seulimeum fault segments where large magnitude earthquakes can occur at any time. Such earthquakes could cause extensiv...
Strong earthquakes are among the prime triggering factors of ... measures, but remains challenging. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (M w ...7.9) in C...
Support vector machine (SVM) modeling is a machine-learning-based method. It involves a training phase with associated input and a predicting phase with target output decision values. In recent years, the method ...
Thousands of landslides were triggered by the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake on 6 September 2018 in Iburi regions ... region, there is a high possibility of earthquakes occurring in the future. Effective predi...
The Ethiopian rift which is part of East African Rift system passes through the middle of the country making it one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Thus, significant and damaging earthquakes ...
The Gorkha, Nepal Mw 7.8 earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered a large...
Earthquake is a sudden release of energy due to faults. Natural calamities like earthquakes can neither be predicted nor prevented. However ... includes microzonation studies, appropriate construction procedures ...
We use Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlight data to model the impact of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. More specifically, the data—showing nightlight ... in nightlight intensity between cells...
The present paper discusses the seismicity of Africa and the need for the implementation of vibration control strategies in Africa, erroneously considered as aseismic. The review catalogues information on the ...
On February 6, a successive rupture of major faults in the Eastern Anatolian Fault Zone and Cardak-Surgu fault triggered a strong mainshock (Mw 7.7) and a major aftershock (Mw 7.6) in Kahramanmaras. The successiv...
During the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (Mw...7.8), extensive soil liquefaction was observed across the Kathmandu Valley. As a densely populated urban settlement, the assessment of liquefaction potential of the valley ...
The Bangkok Basin has been known from non-instrumental observations of the local population to be subject to ground motion amplification due to the deep alluvial sediments and basin geometry. This study analyz...
In the recent past, several efforts have been made by a number of researchers to measure anomalous emanations of geo-gases in seismic prone regions of the world and radon has been the most preferred geo-gas as po...
The results of seismic risk assessment of spatially distributed infrastructure systems are significantly influenced by spatial correlation of earthquake intensity measures (IM). The assumption of ... for most of ...
The Southeast of Yogyakarta City has had the heaviest damages to buildings in the 2006 of Yogyakarta Earthquake disaster. A moderate to strong earthquake of 6.3 Mw shook the 20 ... than 240,396 residential buildi...
Kathmandu Valley, which is a rapidly growing place in Nepal, was largely damaged by the earthquakes of April 25 (Mw 7.8) ... 3). For taking measures against future large earthquakes, knowledge of the long-term earthquake
The 7.5 Mw tectonic earthquake that hit Palu City on 28 September...–4 to 2.56 × 10–4. The distribution of the locations of the liquefaction was correlated to the distribution of ground shear strain values. High ...
The HVSR method revealed the amplification factors (A0) ranging from 1.23 to 8.26 times, corresponding to natural frequency (f0) variations between 1.24 and 9.67 Hz. About 13% and 55% of the sites show high (6 ≤ 
Masonry minarets in Old Cairo are highly susceptible to earthquake damage, particularly those not designed or updated ... broader community. By studying the effects of earthquakes on minarets and developing mitig...
In this paper we present results of groundwater fluorescence monitoring over a period of approximately three months. We observe distinct wavelengths with an on-line flow-through fluorometer in two different therm...
It has been known that Bengkulu City (Indonesia) is vulnerable to undergo seismic damage. This study is initiated by measuring horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (H/V) to sites in Bengkulu City using microtrem...
This paper reflects on the progress of tsunami preparedness in a coastal community in Aceh, Indonesia, nearly two decades after the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The research employs a comprehensive ...
Landslides, floods, fires, windstorms, hailstorms, and earthquakes are major dangers in Bhutan due to...
Disasters like earthquakes and flood cause enormous loss of lives ... in terms of their performance and shortcomings during earthquake and flood disasters and found to be ... in Nepal during 1934, 1988 and 2015 earthquakes
Earthquake-prone regions from the stable continental regions ... ever since the December 10, 1967, strong earthquake (M6.5) which killed around 200 ... Intensity (MMI) levels owing to the scenario earthquakes (M4...
This manuscript reviews seismic isolation and response control methods of buildings, which are able to make buildings resilient against earthquakes and have become popular during the last ... a method of protecti...
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