Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment Analysis In Jailolo Coastal Region

Earthquake disaster risk management planning in schools

Purpose – This paper aims to develop an appropriate earthquake disaster management system for Iranian schools with a main focus on non-structural problems of schools during disasters. Design/methodology/approach – A framework is proposed for disaster management planning regarding earthquakes in three phases: before, during, and after an earthquake. A detailed description of the proposed managem...

Disaster risk assessment pattern in higher education centers

Disasters are one of the most important challenges which must be considered by every management system. Higher education centers have high disaster risk because of their risk factors (existence of historical and scientific documents and resources and expensive laboratory equipment in these centers emphasizes the importance of disaster management). Moreover, the existence of young volunteers of ...

Integrating Tsunami Disaster Risk Assessment into Coastal Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development in Sukabumi District

This research is designed based on the Crunch Model which formulates tsunami disaster risk as the multiplication between the level of hazard and vulnerability. The analysis results show that the most dangerous areas of tsunami are obtained. Based on the analysis results, the allotment of space utilization for buffer zones (coastal and river set back zones) are still not acquired, additionally t...

Disaster Mitigation Engineering -the Kobe Earthquake Disaster

The concept of plate tectonics is generally accepted in earth science and seismology. The surface of the earth is divided into rigid tectonic plates that move on the earth surface at extremely slow speed. The islands of Japan sit on the North American and Eurasian plates. The Pacific plate moves westward and the Philippines plate moves to northwest direction; both plates sink under the islands ...

Earth Observation for Earthquake Disaster Monitoring and Assessment