Damages by earthquake and libraries

Earthquake damages to hospitals and clinics in Kobe, Japan.

Modeling and Analyzing Earthquake Induced Building Damages in a Gis

After a catastrophe like an earthquake a quick assessment of the damages has to be carried out in order to initiate repair actions. Especially building damages have to be recorded, in order to be able to give housing to the unsheltered as quickly as possible. To this end, the degree of damage of a building has to be captured, and based on these information decisions concerning the measures have...

An Agent-Based System to Minimize Earthquake-Induced Damages

Over 2000 earthquakes happen every year in Japan, so that this country is often called earthquake-ridden (Government of Japan, 2006). There exists a serious problem to prevent the occurrence of earthquake-induced disasters, such as fire, short-circuits, gas leakage, etc. With the recent advent of nation-wide telecommunication networks, real-time earthquake information can be received at every h...

Fuzzy Inference Systems for Automatic Classification of Earthquake Damages

This paper presents efficient models in the area of damage potential classification of seismic signals. After an earthquake, one of the most important actions that authorities must take is to inspect structures and estimate the degree of damages. The interest is obvious for several reasons such as public safety, economical recourses management and infrastructure. This approach provides a compar...

Spatial Modeling for Reducing Earthquake Disaster Damages in Iran

Earthquake is one of disaster that when happened causes many problems in economic and society in Iran, so earthquake disaster management is necessary for decreasing these problem effects. Because of most related data with earthquake and its effects have spatial properties, so GIS can be used as effective tool for managing and decision making in disaster. In some countries such as Iran, disaster...