Ground motion estimation for a site (34.01 o N, 71.45 o E) located in the Peshawar in terms of Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) values is conducted. It is carried out with deterministic seismic hazard analysis approach using faults sources within a radius of one hundred kilometers around site. The results of this study indicate that the Main Boundary Thrust located at a distance of twenty nine (2...

Due to the large numbers of units and organizations in earthquake precursor industry, there exist some problems as follows: a) how to dynamically manage the relationships among different units; b) how to synchronize the metadata from lower unit to upper unit in a quick way; c) how to manage the metadata restriction in distributed system. Based on the current situation, the demand for earthquake...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common psychological maladaptation among adolescents after undergoing an earthquake. Knowledge about the prevalence and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the changes of its predictors over time can help medical providers assist adolescent survivors with mitigating long-term impacts. This study examined the change...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of the 2011 great east Japan earthquake on body mass index (BMI) of preschool children. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study and ecological study. SETTING Affected prefectures (Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate) and unaffected prefectures in northeast Japan. PARTICIPANTS The cohort study assessed 2033 and 1707 boys and 1909 and 1658 girls in 3 affected prefectures ...

Current practice enables the design and assessment of structures in earthquake prone areas by performing time history analysis with the use of appropriately selected strong ground motions. This study presents a Matlab-based software environment, which is integrated with a finite element analysis package, and aims to improve the efficiency of earthquake ground motion selection by accounting for ...

We identify the key design aspects of a GPS-based system (and in the future, GNSS-based systems) that could contribute to real-time earthquake source determination and tsunami warning systems. Our approach is based on models of both transient and permanent displacement of GPS stations caused by large earthquakes, while considering the effect of GPS errors on inverted earthquake source parameter...

In order to minimize the loss of disasters on urban earthquake damage prediction research is of great significance. This paper, establishment of a data management system based on ArcGIS +Visual Studio. NET platform is an important work of the project, design and development of Langfang City earthquake damage prediction system. Firstly, the overall system framework, then introduce the system to ...

BACKGROUND Following disasters, persons with disabilities (PWD) are especially vulnerable to harm, yet they have commonly been excluded from disaster planning, and their needs have been poorly addressed during disaster relief. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, thousands of individuals experienced acute injuries. Many more individuals with preexisting disabilities experienced heightened vulne...

Design spectrum is known as an essential tool in earthquake engineering for calculation of maximum (design) responses in a structural system. Soil-structure interaction (SSI), as a phenomenon of coupling of responses of a structure and its underlying soil, was explored after introduction of design spectra and has not been taken into account in developing a design spectrum traditionally. To cons...