Recent Characteristics of Earthquake Disasters

Earthquake Induced a Chain Disasters

Problems on Earthquake Disasters in Rural Area-consideration from the Recent Damaging Earthquakes in Hokkaido,

Problems on earthquake disasters in rural area are discussed through the experiences due to recent damaging earthquakes attacked Hokkaido, northern Japan. In the field of earthquake disaster engineering, main concern has been focused on the problems in the densely populated area in large cities. It is obvious that in a large city seismic risk is very high because of concentration of vulnerable ...

Earthquake Disaster Gis and Spatial-temporal Pattern of Earthquake Disasters in China1

This paper summarizes the development of a Geographic Information System for managing and analyzing information on the effects of earthquakes in historical times of China. The extensive bibliography documenting the seismicity from B.C.3000 showed the need to proceed towards a type of data storage that would also allow management of the same data. Application of GIS techniques allowed us to inse...

The Role of Earthquake Information Management System to Reduce Destruction in Disasters with Earthquake Approach

Denaturalizing “natural” disasters: Haiti’s earthquake and the humanitarian impulse

professionals and policy-makers need to understand the unnatural determinants of the problems facing the country and how these affect any form of response. Without such an understanding, the humanitarian impulse informing international efforts to support Haiti’s recovery and development may serve to merely reinforce the historic relationship between wealthy countries and Haiti and may fuel cont...