International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction: Assessment of the 2021 Haiti Earthquake
In the aftermath of the 2021 M7.2 Haiti earthquake, MTPTC (Ministère des Travaux Publics, Transports et Communications), UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services) and Miyamoto International implemented a damage and repair assessment program. Between Octo- ber 2021 and February 2022, 380 trained engineers evaluated 179,800 buildings in the Sud, Grand’Anse and Nippes departments, reaching over 600,000 beneficiaries. The assessments were executed in compliance with ATC-20 and the Haitian standards, through an innovative digital- ized approach. More than 11,000 buildings were collapsed or not repairable; over 89,000 build- ings were damaged and repairable. Approximately 88,000 buildings were in confined masonry and over 26,000 of them could be repaired as per MTPTC guidelines; around 80,000 buildings were in the timber and stones vernacular technique. The examined dataset is one of the largest studied in recent humanitarian history and it is critical to learn from past seismic events. We herein analyze the observed structural weaknesses and make a comparison with the 2010 earth- quake.
2023 Herat Afghanistan Earthquake Preliminary Shelter and Housing Response
On Oct 8th, 2023, Miyamoto’s first assessment team was deployed to conduct a rapid assessment of the affected area. The earthquake affected 11 villages in the Zinda Jan district of Herat province. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people were exposed to high-ground intensity. The epicenter was about 40 kilometers northwest of Herat city and brought significant causalities in these villages.
2023 Morocco Earthquake – Situation Report #2
On Sunday, September 10, 2023, our team of earthquake engineering experts was deployed to Marrakesh in response to
2023 Morocco Earthquake – Situation Report #1
Mw 6.8 earthquake, 43.5 miles south of Marrakech (epicentre=31.1 N 8.4 W, depth=18km) on 8 Sept. 2023,
Full Extent of Damage From Turkey Quakes Takes Shape
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Why buildings in Turkey collapsed like a ‘pack of cards’ after earthquakes?
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Magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake
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M-8.1 Earthquake Strikes Mexico
The magnitude-8.1 earthquake on 7 September 2017 offshore of Chiapas, Mexico was a magnitude-8.1 event at a depth
7.8-M Ecuador Earthquake Damage spans 200-km coastline
As the death toll from the April 16, 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador continues to rise, the magnitude of
Survey Of Damaged School And Hospital Buildings In The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquakes, Retrofit Options, And Application To Turkey
On 12 May 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck China, approximately 80 km west of Chengdu in the