Today Rafael and I visited the City Center of Van. It was known to have less damage than the City of Ercis, but we wanted to make sure that we covered all of the main cities surrounding the epicenter...
Arrived at the airport in the city of Van, Turkey just before lunch. Our EERI/METU team had a taxi ready to take me directly to the city of Ercis where most of the damage occurred. It was raining when I arrived and very cold. There was a lot of inconsistency in the damage.
Photo #1: Mosque under construction near the city of Van. No damage visible.
Partnership Resulted in 58 Government Engineers Trained and Various Structural Engineering Design Resources Developed
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.--(10/12/2011) -- Build Change, the international non-profit social enterprise that designs earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries, has partnered with Degenkolb Engineers, a leading structural design engineering firm, to provide technical assistance and training services to the Government of Haiti (GoH) following the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake.
Build Change and Degenkolb have been working with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Communications (MTPTC) to ...
Principal Mark Sinclair, a native New Zealander and advocate for the latest earthquake technologies, has been working closely with Build Change over the past 18 months since the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. One million Haitians were left homeless and more than 300,000 people died as a result.
Mark recently wrote about his work in Haiti and what's the best approach to seismic safety in Haiti. To read more, check out this month's issue of Structural Engineer magazine. Click ...
People have been asking why so much of the east coast felt shaking from the recent M5.8 VA quake. It's easy to assume that the East Coast is overreacting and oversensitive because they don't typically experience earthquakes. However, there is likely a more scientific explanation.
While a geologist or seismologist is probably more qualified to answer this question, I can offer some explanation. I believe the reason that the ground motions were felt in such a widely distributed ...
Gordy Wray travelled to Haiti with Build Change. This is a continuation of a log of his spent time there. See his previous blog for Day 1.
Days 2, 3 & 4 – Wednesday June 15th – Friday June 17th
Build Change employs a number of local Engineers to work on the design of both new buildings and retrofit projects. The retrofit projects are potentially more complex than new design, therefore a group of 8 of the top performing ...
