In the emergence situation after a large earthquake, fast evaluation of the damage is really necessary for rescue team and recovery plan, even if it is quite rough. Remote sensing image provides a new information source for rapid estimation of earthquake damage. In the recent years, achievements on identifying seriously damaged area by remote sensing are reported, some of them are from high res...

In a previous study, we have calculated the usable road distance in the southern coastal area of Iwate Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. In this context, a usable road is one on which at least one vehicle has been probed during the observation period. If the accumulative usable distance up to September 30, 2011 is considered as 100%, then the percentage of the usable road distanc...

Understanding how human populations naturally respond to and cope with risk is important for fields ranging from psychology to public health. We used geophysical and individual-level mobile-phone data (mobile-apps, telecommunications, and Web usage) of 157,358 victims of the 2013 Ya'an earthquake to diagnose the effects of the disaster and investigate how experiencing real risk (at different le...

The Gorkha earthquake (magnitude 7.8) on 25 April 2015 and later aftershocks struck South Asia, killing ~9000 people and damaging a large region. Supported by a large campaign of responsive satellite data acquisitions over the earthquake disaster zone, our team undertook a satellite image survey of the earthquakes' induced geohazards in Nepal and China and an assessment of the geomorphic, tecto...

In 1995, the Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake (M 7.3) ruptured the Nojima fault, Awaji Island, central Japan. To investigate the recovery process of a fault zone after a large earthquake, repeated water injection experiments have been conducted every few years in an 1800-m-long borehole near the Nojima fault since 1997. In addition, the groundwater discharge rate and pressure have been observed in an ...

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti's infrastructure, killing an estimated 230,000 persons and displacing more than 1.5 million. Ten months later, Haiti experienced the beginning of the largest cholera epidemic ever reported in a single country. Immediately after the earthquake and at the start of the cholera epidemic, health priorities in Haiti included improvement of surveilla...

The paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. The paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. The impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...

With the increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters, tourism industry in disaster-stricken areas is often hard hit, so it urgent to improve resilience industry. Based on perspective regional economic resilience, this study takes Wenchuan earthquake as an example explore theoretical framework, research ideas methods tourist destination resilience. The policy should be included constructi...

With the aim of simulating earthquake disaster of a vast urban area, we enhanced the Integrated Earthquake Simulator (IES) with high performance computation (HPC). IES is a system to seamlessly simulate possible earthquake hazard, disaster, evacuation and recovery. The need of such system is indispensable. Businesses, local and state governments need reliable quantitative predictions of infrast...

BACKGROUND Treatment of child earthquake survivors is a relatively less investigated issue in disaster research. A review of the evidence on the mental health effects of earthquakes, risk factors, and findings from treatment studies may provide useful insights into effective treatment of traumatized children. DATA SOURCES Studies of child and adolescent earthquake survivors included the PILOT...