Background: On 12 May 2008, a devastating earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan in China, and resulted in the casualties of thousands of people. Some of the hospitalized earthquake victims can occur pulmonary infection. However, few studies have been conducted on the clinical features of pulmonary infection in hospitalized casualty after Wenchuan Earthquake....

The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake with the JMA seismic intensity of 7 occurred at a central south part Hokkaido, Japan 3:08 a.m. on September 6, 2018. Considering social importance this historical earthquake-induced geo-disaster, Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS) organized “JGS Survey Team for Disasters in Induced by earthquake,” mainly comprised experts from industry and academia br...

Craig E. Taylor, President, Natural Hazards Management Inc. James E. Moore III, Associate Professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Public Policy and Management, University of Southern California Sungbin Cho, Research Associate, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California Jon S. Walton, Vice President, MacFarland Walton Enterprises Stuart D. Werner, Prin...

This paper examines the travel behavior of the Chinese and Korean tourism market following the Japan Earthquake in a bid to identify travelers who are likely to be most and least resilient in the event of a significant disaster. The post disaster travel behavior of travelers from these two countries is analyzed to reveal the circumstances under which travelers would go to Japan despite the eart...

In 2011, the huge tsunami caused by the great east Japan earthquake devastated many infrastructures in pacific coast of north eastern Japan. Particularly, collapse of bridges caused a traffic disorder and these collapse behaviors led to delay of recovery after the disaster. In this study, the bridge wash away accident is selected as a target issue, and it is represented by a numerical simulatio...

The aims of this study were to assess the quality of life (QOL) in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) following the earthquake in China (2008) and to identify the most important areas of rehabilitation. All study participants (14 people with SCI) completed a closedquestion social questionnaire, Life Satisfaction Questionnaire, and Aims of Rehabilitation Questionnaire. The most satisfying area...

Remote sensing technology is playing an increasingly important role in post-disaster decision support. Organizations including the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) recognize that following major earthquakes, satellite imagery can bring significant benefits to response and recovery efforts, through urban dam...

BACKGROUND The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China resulted in great loss of life and property, and previous studies have focused on psychopathological symptoms in survivors after disasters. This study examined perceived family functioning and its predictors in disaster bereaved individuals eighteen months after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS This was a cross-sectional study...

Current building code requirements for seismic design are primarily intended to minimize life-safety risks due structural damage under extreme earthquakes. While tall buildings designed current standards expected achieve the goal, this study estimates that they may require up 7.5 months of repair return functionality after a design-level earthquake (roughly equivalent ground motion shaking with...

In assessments of the seismic adequacy of existing steel bridges, the steel-to-concrete anchorage connections typically found at the base of steel truss piers can be potentially vulnerable, having little to no ductility and inadequate strength to resist seismic demands. Many other non-ductile failure locations may also exist along the seismic load path. Failure would result in unacceptable perf...