Earthquakes without Frontiers
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The Earthquakes without Frontiers partnership brings together a group of earth scientists with a long track record in integrated earthquake science, social scientists that have extensive experience in exploring the vulnerability and resilience of communities in disaster-prone regions, and experienced practitioners in the communication of scientific knowledge to policy makers.
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
Jonathan Rigg, National University of Singapore & Katie Oven, Durham University
We are now 18 months into our five-year Earthquake without Frontiers research programme which involves a dazzling number of researchers from the natural and social sciences, and around 20 institutions spread across four case study countries.
The field research is being undertaken in Nepal, India (Bihar State), Kazakhstan and China (Sichuan and the Ordos Plateau). Already, on the social science side of the project, a common problem – how to build resilience in the context of earthquakes – is taking a very differ ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
By John Elliott (University of Oxford)
Recently published work shows that there is significant remaining seismic hazard at the city of Van resulting from the relatively deep rupture of the previous earthquake from 2011.
In October 2011 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the cities of Van & Ecriş in Eastern Turkey killing over 600 people. Using satellite radar measurements, we were able to precisely map the fault segments that ruptured in this event.. These observations were critical in showing that the slip in the earthquake remained buried between 8 and 20 km undergroun ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
Katie Oven and Samantha Jones
Over the past six months Sam and Katie have been engaging in research to examine how earthquake risk reduction (EQRR) is governed in Nepal and the Indian State of Bihar. A series of interviews and focus group discussions have been undertaken with a range of stakeholder groups, including international organisations, government bodies, and national and international NGOs, with a view to understanding the policy and legislative context and the role of different stakeholders in EQRR. This stage of the research has focused on state level policy and pl ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
By Yu Zhou (University of Oxford)
This April, part of the EwF group (Professor Philip England, Professor Barry Parsons and Dr. Richard Walker from the University of Oxford; Professor Lena Dominelli and Dr. Katie Oven from Durham University; John Young from the Overseas Development Institute; and Timothy Sim from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) organised meetings in Xi’an (Northwest University) and Beijing (Peking University) to discuss both geological and social issues with a wide range of Chinese bureaus and researchers. The two meetings brought together more than 60 people including re ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
Professor Alex Densmore and I are currently recruiting a Post-Doctoral researcher to work with us on a project on earthquake-induced landslides. This post, which will start on 1st October 2013, is a two month position that is part of the consortium team on the ‘Earthquakes Without Frontiers’ project that is featured on this blog, funded by the NERC-ESRC Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards Programme. As a reminder, the aim of the EWF project is to increase resilience to continental earthquakes across the Alpine-Himalayan mountain chain, through a linked trans-disciplinary partnership of ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
By Rob Parker (University of Cardiff) and Dave Petley
The Mw = 7.8 earthquake on Tuesday in Iran was the largest event in that country for about 50 years. Fortunately, the depth of the earthquake (82 km) and the low population density in the affected areas meant that loss of life was low for an event of this size. Indeed, reports suggest that only one person died in Iran, although there are reports of 40 deaths in Pakistan. This single fatality in Iran was the result of a landslide, and one of the images on the BBC reports about the earthquake also seems to show landslides:
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Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
Katie Oven and Susanne Sargeant
January 16th saw the launch of the EwF project in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hosted by the National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET-Nepal), the event brought together more than 25 national-level stakeholders involved in earthquake risk reduction in Nepal including representatives from government ministries and departments; international organisations including the UNDP; donors including the World Bank and DfID; NGOs; and universities.
Following speeches from Mr Navin Kumar Ghimire (Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs) and Mr Chakrapani Sharma (Under ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
“Punarnava”: Bouncing back to life again and again
Samantha Jones and Katie Oven
The EwF launch in Patna, in the Indian State of Bihar, took place this week. Hosted by the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority, the launch was attended by 25 stakeholders involved in earthquake risk reduction in Bihar including government departments, international organisations, NGOs, and local universities and research institutes. The launch event provided an opportunity to identify and map out key stakeholders involved in earthquake risk reduction, and to discuss the aims of the EwF project in ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
By Tim Middleton, PhD student at COMET+, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Inner Mongolia is cold in November. Snow and ice blanket the elevated plateau and the biting winds drag the temperature well below minus 20°C. An enormous wind farm, recently installed by the local government, makes good use of the extreme weather. Herdsmen are dressed in fur coats and ski goggles, whilst other locals hack at frozen bales of hay with pickaxes. Perfect conditions, then, for a field trip examining the active faults!
Figure 1: East-west strike-slip fault in Inner Mongolia with a small com ..read more
Earthquakes without Frontiers
2y ago
The M=7.4 that struck just offshore western Guatemala yesterday is now believed to have killed at least 48 people, with more people thought to still be buried in the rubble. The location of the epicenter of the earthquake, as measured by the USGS, indicates that there is high ground within the area that might be expected to have suffered high peak ground accelerations (as the Google Earth perspective view below shows), indicating that landslides are likely:
Inevitably, the area affected by landslides is both remote and inaccessible in the aftermath of the earthquake, so a proper underst ..read more