...Max Wyss; Michel Speiser; Stavros Tolis ABSTRACT A key measure of the earthquake problem in a country is the ratio of fatalities to population size. We propose that the new parameter earthquake fatality load per year objectively measures the level of the population suffering in seismically active...

... in assessing the earthquake risk for the population. The degree of suffering is defined by the earthquake load (EQFL), which is the number of fatalities in a given earthquake divided by the population number of the respective country. Considering earthquakes since 1500, we calculated the annual earthquake load...

..., but there are countries where the average number of fatalities expected is higher. Table 2 Ranking of the Western Mediterranean Countries according to Potency (the Mean Expectation of Fatalities in Earthquakes, Updated from Wyss et al. , 2022 ) and Ranking according to Load (a Measure of the Impact of Fatal...

... response in heavily damaged Santa Cruz County. On the demand side, the injury pattern analysis found that: (1) almost all fatalities and most serious injuries were associated with structural failure; (2) the majority of fatalities and serious casualties came from a small number of damaged structures, most...

...Adnan Barkat; Farhan Javed; Yen Joe Tan; Aamir Ali; Muhammad Tahir Javed; Nabeel Ahmad; Muhammad Awais; Muhammad Ali Shah; Talat Iqbal Abstract On 24 September 2019, an M w 5.9 earthquake struck near the Mangla reservoir in northeastern Pakistan and resulted in 39 fatalities and 746 serious...

...Robin André Rørstadbotnen; Hefeng Dong; Martin Landrø; Kenneth Duffaut; Kevin Growe; Umedzhon Kakhkhorov; Susann Wienecke; Joacim Jacobsen ABSTRACT Quick clay avalanche is one of the most devastating landslide types worldwide. Hence, an early warning system is in demand to mitigate the fatal...

...Ivanna M. Penna; Reginald L. Hermanns; Pierrick Nicolet; Odd Andre Morken; John Dehls; Vikram Gupta; Michel Jaboyedoff Abstract Large slope collapses have been known to trigger extreme rushes of air loaded with projectiles (airblasts) capable of causing destruction and fatalities far beyond run-out...

... was found to be poor, which was the primary source of fatalities. Unreinforced brick masonry (URBM) buildings, however, performed well even in severely jolted areas. The performance of URBM could have been much better if the affected buildings were constructed by using proper guidelines. Taking lessons from...

...Esper S. Larsen Abstract John Charles Rabbitt died suddenly at his home in Washington, D. C. on the evening of June 10, 1957. He was working on an overtime load of office papers, as was his custom, when stricken by a fatal coronary occlusion. Copyright © 1958 by the Mineralogical Society...

... according to the New Zealand Loading Standards (NZS1170.5). This is followed by development of risk-targeted hazard for individual fatality risk, including how epistemic uncertainty in the seismic hazard can be considered. Then the concept of societal fatality risk targets is introduced and included...

... engineering provide a consistent framework for assessing building collapse risk using nonlinear dynamic analysis. These tools are applied to evaluate the risk of earthquake-induced collapse and fatalities in a representative set of older concrete frames. Results show that nonductile concrete frame buildings...

... significant difference in the response of timber-framed and masonry structures to the earthquake loading. The quality of the data collected from all of these events provides a sound basis to reach these observational conclusions. The concept of an earthquake fatality function derives from this observa- tional...

.... In Pakistan alone, the earthquake and subsequent aftershock swarm resulted in 280 fatalities, injuries to 1,770 persons, and notable damage to 109,123 buildings. A synopsis of observations is presented herein, covering details about seismotectonics, strong motion characteristics, damage statistics...

... of small and large earthquakes by activating the faults that are already highly stressed from tectonic loading. Although not the entire strain energy fed into the global system of tectonic faults through plate tectonic motion is released through earthquakes (some fraction is released aseismically...

... and again. However, its management is a challenge for the coal mining industry ( Singh et al., 2004 ). Table 1. Accident statistics during 1975-2020 in coal mines of Coal India Limited in India ( https://coal.gov.in ) Years Average fatal accidents Average serious accidents Average fatality...

... and the treatment level required. After applying filtering to a comprehensive New Zealand earthquake-induced injury database, 947 injuries matched this study’s scope, of which 174 were fatal. Collapse or movement of non-structural elements caused 556 injuries; though over 85% were treated outside hospitals and none...

...Helen Crowley, M. EERI; Barbara Polidoro; Rui Pinho, M. EERI; Jan van Elk For the estimation of “local personal risk,” i.e., the annual probability of fatality for a hypothetical person continuously present in or near a building, an analytical methodology based on the probability of partial...