Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng
Abstract
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Publications
Aktas Y
(2022)
Editorial: Disaster Reconnaissance Missions: Is a Hybrid Approach the Way Forward?
in Frontiers in Built Environment
Freddi F
(2021)
Observations from the 26th November 2019 Albania earthquake: the earthquake engineering field investigation team (EEFIT) mission
in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Ioannou I
(2021)
Empirical fragility assessment of residential buildings using data from the Emilia 2012 sequence of earthquakes
in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
| Description | To date we have identified the needs of users for field reconnaissance data collection, storage and display, which have been incorporated into the bespoke LfE App for damage data collection and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for data storage and display. These have been used in recent earthquake reconnaissance missions. The App is compatible with the SDI to allow for automatic download of data during missions if internet connection is available, and storage with subsequent download to the SDI if internet is not available in the field. The App is able to capture on a mobile device the important characteristics of buildings, their level of damage and location, as well as link to this information photos taken from the field. Tha App and SDI have been deployed in the earthquake reconnaissance remote missions to the 2020 Zagreb, Croatia earthquake, 2020 Aegean earthquake and tsunami and Haiti earthquake 2021 (see later). The App and SDI now incorporate tsunami as well as earthquakes and have been proven to be robust, useable tools. The App is completed and the SDI is currently being tested with new field data. In the case of the 28 September 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, we have conducted a reconnaissance mission that has provided data for an improved understanding of the earthquake, tsunami and landslides hazard characteristics of the event. This event provides an exemplar of multi-hazard impact on a community and is the current subject of study by the reconnaissance team. A particular finding is the relationship between the observed massive landslides and the presence of a man-made irrigation channel, that saturated the ground making it more susceptible to landsliding. We have also collected data that is helping us to understand the impact of these hazards on local school infrastructure and on coastal buildings. This has so far resulted in an EEFIT Report and conference papers. The collaborations with Indonesian academic institutions (Tadulako University and Syah Kuala University) have also led to an ESRC GCRF Equitable Resilience proposal n Schools as resilience hubs (PI H. Joffe, Co-I T.Rossetto at UCL) that has been funded . A field mission was conducted after the Albania 2019 earthquake, which has provided information mainly on the damage and response of buildings to earthquakes. The field mission also was used to do the first testing of the damage data collection App. Due to COVID travel restrictions, we deployed remote earthquake missions for the first time on the occasion of the 2020 Zagreb, Croatia, earthquake. It was found that social media data was of limited use for these missions, and that a hybrid approach of desk studies, interviews and collaboration with local partners for damage data collection, was the most efficient way to run these missions. Remote missions were also found to be an excellent way of involving more people in missions. Due to extended COVID restrictions, hybrid missions were again deployed in the case of the Augean earthquake and Tsunami and Haiti earthquake in 2021. These missions resulted in reports, publications and presentations at the Institution of Structural Engineers. A special issue of Frontiers journal is also being edited by the LfE Team. Although remote reconnaissance missions have been found to be very useful, it was also found that remote missions are not a substitute for physical missions. Mission protocols are being looked at to alter how future missions are conducted, with the suggestion of having a UK based large support team conducting research on disaster effects (simulating the remote missions) which support a team in the field.. COVID has led to serious delays in the deployment of the recovery missions scheduled under the grant. However, the first recovery reconnaissance mission was deployed in May 2022 to Nepal and further three return missions were undertaken in October-December 2022 to areas in Indonesia and Thailand affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami. The observations from these missions are currently being written into reports and journal papers. There is also a blog: https://eefit.wordpress.com/ |
| Exploitation Route | The SDI that is being developed to hold the earthquake reconnaissance data has been used in recent earthquake missions and will be a portal for the dissemination and download of reconnaissance data for future missions. Handover to EEFIT and long term maintenance is being discussed. The App for damage data collection that has been developed will be an integral tool for use by EEFIT in future earthquake reconnaissance missions and directly feeds into the SDI. The App has been deployed in three earthquake missions already. The observations made during the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami event and 2019 Albania earthquake will inform future research studies in the fields of earthquake engineering, tsunami engineering and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Furthermore, observations on the built environment performance will feed into current risk models developed by insurers and civil engineering companies. Observations made in the 2020 Zageb, Croatia, 2020 Aegean earthquake and 2021 Haiti earthquake remote missions, will inform how we conduct future earthquake missions, and will influence EEFIT mission protocols. Observations on earthquake and tsunami recovery from the Nepal, Indonesia and Thailand recovery issions will provide valuable lessons on post-disaster recovery and reconstruction that are of value to engineers and insurers. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Education,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy |
| Description | In addition to the impacts reported for EP/P025641/1, the project is working on the development of an Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the storage and display of field reconnaissance data of different types. A thorough review of past data captured during field missions has been conducted. A survey has also been concluded, where past participants in EEFIT missions have expressed their aspirations and needs for the SDI. This information has been used in order to design the SDI structure and capabilities. The SDI prototype has been developed and is being tested on data collected during the recent 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and 2019 Albania earthquake econnaissance missions. An App has also been designed and built for the systematic capture of building damage data following earthquakes. This App has been deployed in the 2019 Albania earthquake, 2020 Zagreb Earthquake, 2020 Aegean Earthquake and Tsunami and 2021 Haiti earthquake reconnaissance missions and feeds into the SDI. The App is completed and will become the main tool for damage data collection by EEFIT and be made available also to other reconnaissance teams worldwide. The SDI is going through its final testing phase before it is made available to EEFIT. An immediacy reconnaissance mission has been launched to Indonesia following the 28 September 2018 earthquake and tsunami. An EEFIT Team led by Prof. Tiziana Rossetto deployed to Indonesia in November 2018. The EEFIT Team conducted the field reconnaissance in partnership with the Tsunami and Disaster Management research Centre, Banda Aceh. Whilst in the field the EEFIT Team engaged with the Shelter Cluster (led by International Federation of Red Cross), providing some basic hazards advice relating to where to put camps. The team conducted a meeting with Ministry of Public Works to discuss with them the link between their irrigation channel and the triggering of landslides seen in Palu. EEFIT also focussed on school assessments and general building damage observations, communicating these to Save the Children who are undertaking school rebuilding assistance. Observations from this mission have already been presented to the engineering community in the UK, through a talk organised by the Institution of Structural Engineers and held at the auditorium of the Willis Towers Watson Building in London on 17th December 2018. The observations have also been disseminated to the international academic community through presentation at a special session at the American Geophysical Union Conference, at the 2019 SECED Conference and will be presented at the 17th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering. The observations and related research have been published as an EEFIT Report, which is available for free download. The Mission also released a Vlog that had a very strong folowing and material from that vlog has been used in teaching materials at Edinburgh University and UCL. An immediacy reconnaissance mission has been launched to Albania following the 26th November 2019 earthquake. The EEFIT Team gathered information on the response of the built environment to the earthquake and the observations are being writtin into an EEFIT Report. The observations were also presented at the Institution of Structural Engineers. A training session in earthquake reconnaissance was delivered on the 27th February 2020 at the Institution of Structural Engineers (IstructE). 16 people participated in the training, with a mix of participants from academia and industry. The training obtained strong positive feedback from participants. A special session was held for EEFIT and the grant findings dissemination at the SECED2019 International Conference 9-10 September 2019 in London, UK. Two special issue of the Frontiers Journal on "Earthquake Reconnaissance - Building the Risk and Resilience Evidence Base" has been issued that was edited by Dr Sean Wilkinson (Newcastle University) and Prof. Tiziana Rossetto (UCL), and on "Disaster Reconnaissance Missions: is a hybrid approach the way forward?" edited by Dr Emily So (University of Cambridge) and Dr Yasemin Aktas (UCL), have been produced as part of the activities of the grant. A highly successful online workshop was also conducted in October 2021 on "Tools and methods for post-disaster reconnaissance missions". The workshop had a number of international speakers from different global agencies that conduct post-disaster reconnaissance and was attended by 80 participants. The workshop will result in a white paper. Three remote earthquake missions have been conducted to produce reports on the 2020 Zagreb and Aegean earthquakes and 2021 Haiti earthquake. These were the first such missions and provided a perfect training ground for new researchers and industry participants in earthquake field missions. They also acted as proofing grounds for the App and SDI, as these were successfully used. These missions have resulted in multiple publications and presentations at the Institution of Structural Engineers. The Haiti mission team was also the 2022 winner of the Ground Engineering (GE) Award for International Project of the Year. A recovery mission was conducted in April 2022 to Nepal to investigate the recovery pathways following the Mw 7.8 earthquake which struck Gorkha, Nepal on 25 April 2015. The mission investigated the recovery, reconstruction and "build back better" approach, analysing both the physical reconstruction and the institutional framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The mission observations have been written into an EEFIT Report, and presentation given at the Institution of Structural Engineers. Three earthquake and tsunami recovery missions have been conducted between October and December 2022. Two of these missions investigated recovery from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and in Thailand. The 2004 tsunami was a highly significant event at the beginning of the 21st century, resulting in huge loss of life. The third mission looked at recovery from the more recent Palu Bay, Indonesia earthquake and tsunami in 2018. Both events had been previously investigated by EEFIT in the immediacy of the events. Mission activities comprised: focused group discussions with stakeholders, questionnaire surveys, interviews, research presentations, site surveys and field observations. Lessons learned will be relevant to reconstruction following future disasters in this region and beyond and are being written up in a blog (https://eefit.wordpress.com/) and EEFIT Report. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Education,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Title | Building earthquake damage data collection App |
| Description | he LfE Mobile app uses an existing off-the-shelf platform called Device Magic and is built following the tier assessment rationale, which depends on the amount of time the user is allowed to spend on site. The data collected is commensurate to this time and gets hierarchically organised so that there is no repetition, whilst guaranteeing that an increasingly detailed level of information is gathered in each successive tier. The LfE Mobile App Version 2.0 includes data capture relevant to earthquake and tsunami damage. The Mobile App liaises closely with the platform defined as spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for data managing and supports the automatic mapping of the data gathered on site, also under development in the LfE project. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The app has been used during the following EEFIT Missions: the Albania Mission launched after the 26 November 2019 earthquake, the first ever launched remote mission, after the March 2020 earthquake in Zagreb, Croatia, and the EEFIT Aegean Earthquake & Tsunami Mission. |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epicentre/mobile-applications |
| Title | EEFIT - Learning from Earthquake pilot questionnaire |
| Description | A pilot online questionnaire was designed and published by the team's RA Enrica Verrucci to elicit opinions from randomly selected EEFIT members on what is required from a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). The platform is intended to permit better management and sharing of the data collected by EEFIT. The survey asks the responders to evaluate how data is currently being acquired and used before, during and after field missions, and their views on how a framework of geographic data, metadata, and tools can be interactively connected and used to make future earthquake field missions more effective. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The emails explaining the project and the survey was sent out by Allan Brereton, the EEFIT Secretary/Treasurer and helped advertised the ambitions of the EPSRC-funded project to members of IStructE and EEFIT. The results of this survey will be directly used to develop the SDI, which is central to the project. |
| URL | http://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=53298 |
| Title | Spatial Digital Infrastructure (SDI) for EEFIT Reconnaissance Data |
| Description | An SDI prototype which included the Data Uploader, Metadata extractor, and a preliminary mapper was developed and tested on data from the Aegean Sea Earthquake and Tsunami Mission. Consultations with the end-users brought us to realise that some users are more used to spreadsheets than maps and therefore an additional component to download data in a tabular format - the Downloader - is now being developed. This change will give more choice to the users about which components of the SDI they want to adopt. The consultations also highlighted a gap between the techincal skills and costs required to manage the SDI code base and database in the long term and those available via EEFIT in the near future. The component-based approach to development will allow future users to pick an entry level SDI or a more sophisticated approach, depending on their budget, skills and end-user needs. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The SDI has been used for storing data collected with the LFE App during the following EEFIT Missions: March 2020 earthquake in Zagreb, Croatia, and the EEFIT Aegean Earthquake & Tsunami Mission. |
| Description | Colaboration with Mahidol University Thailand for tsunami recovery mission |
| Organisation | Mahidol University |
| Country | Thailand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint investigation of recovery from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in a mission to Thailand in December 2022 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic staff from Mahidol University (led by Dr Panon Latcharote) helped organise the recovery mission and joined the mission, providing expertise , data collection in the field and writing of the EEFIT report. |
| Impact | Blog for the Thailand tsunami recovery mission here: https://eefit.wordpress.com/eefit-recovery-mission-to-thailand/ The EEFIT report is being written jointly reporting the observations on recovery made in the field. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Tadulako University, Indonesia |
| Organisation | Tadulako University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative field mission to Palu, Indonesia |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assisting with field data collection |
| Impact | The help given in the field to the EEFIT team has helped develop the EEFIT Report on 2018 Palu earthquake and tsunami |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaborations have been set up with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan. |
| Organisation | Tohoku University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research discussions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborations have been set up with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan. This collaboration sees IRIDeS providing the project with tsunami inundation simulations for the 2018 Palu earthquake and tsunami. They have used their proprietary numerical fluid mechanics software to simulate the tsunami. |
| Impact | The tsunami inundation maps of Palu developed by IRIDeS present input to WP3 multi-hazard risk assessment of schools. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Joint reconnaissance mission with the Tsunami and Disaster Management Research Centre, Banda Aceh, Indonesia |
| Organisation | Syiah Kuala University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint reconnaissance mission organisation for the 28 September 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Helped organise the mission logistics, and participated in conducting the mission with 4 members from TDMRC joining the team. |
| Impact | A reconnaissance report is being written jointly with the TDMRC team. We have also presented at the American Geophysical Union Conference in Washington in December 2018. A presentation of the mission observations was made at WillisTowersWatson on 17th December 2018. We have also had an abstract accepted to the SECED2019 Conference, to take place on the 9-10 September 2019 in London. The collaboration involved earthquake engineeris, coastal morphologists, coastal engineers, geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, and a psychologist |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | LfE Zagreb Earthquake Remote Reconnaissance Mission Field Damage Surveys |
| Organisation | University of Zagreb |
| Country | Croatia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | University of Cambridge led the LfE team in conducting a remote reconnaissance mission after the March 2020 Zagreb earthquake. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor Josip Atalic and Professor Marta Šavor Novak from the Faculty of Civil Engineering supported master students Helena Majetic and Anamarija Babic in the planning, remote learning and implementation of damage surveys through the LfE damage app in the field from 18/05/2020 - 22/05/2020. |
| Impact | Online blog and report, and joint EEFIT and SECED presentation to an international online audience on the 27th January 2021. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | LfE earthquake and tsunami building damage assessment App |
| Description | The App has been developed within the LfE project by the UCL team. The aim of the App is to collect information on building damage due to earthquake and tsunami actions, and is used in collecting important data during post-disaster reconnaissance missions. The App has now been used in three disaster events. It has been developed and refined over the term of the project. The App speaks directly to the developed Spatial Digital Infrastructure (SDI) also developed in the project, which stores the data collected. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The App has been used in three post-disaster reconnaissances. |
| Title | LfE-SDI |
| Description | The SDI is a searcheable database that captures and stires information on building damage due to earthquakes and tsunami. The SDI is a flexible database that can accept numerous types of data, from photographs, text, videos, voice recordings etc. It maintains the geocoding of the data and allows a user to search and display the data geographically. The SDI seamlessly interfaces with the LfE App. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The SDI has been used to store and organise data from 4 past earthquake missions by EEFIT and the LfE Team. It is being populated with further data,. |
| Description | BBC interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC Science Editor, Rebecca Morelle and crew conducted a interview with Emily So and Tugce Tetik, a PhD student and part of the EEFIT Kahramanmaras Team. This recorded segment will form part of a BBC feature on the Turkey/ Syria earthquake. The BBC crew will also be filming work of the deployed field mission team from 13-17th March 2022 in Turkey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Blog for the 2020 Aegean EEFIT Mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog documented the day to day activities of the EEFIT Team conducting the 2020 Aegean Earthquake and Tsunami reconnaissance mission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://eefitaegean.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Blog for the EEFIT Mission to the 6 FEB 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog site was set up for the EEFIT Kahramanmaras Mission to Turkey, which will run between the 1st of March 2023, the start of the remote mission, to the end of the field reconnaissance mission on the 17th of March 2023. The blog is run by our whole team, divided into subgroups of interest and expertise and contains booth technical and non-technical content to cater for wide range of audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eefitkahramanmarash.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Blog for the Zagreb (Croatia) EEFIT Mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog documented the first ever remote earthquake mission conducted by EEFIT under the auspices of the Learning From Earthquakes Project. All participants were from the Research Team on the project, from across UCL, Newcastle University and Cambridge University. The Blog created greater interest in earthquake mission activities,and created a wide interest in remote earthquake reconnaissance missions, paving the way for the remote earthquake mission conducted after the 2020 Aegean earthquake and tsunami. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://lfemissiontozagreb.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Blog on earthquake and tsunami recovery missions 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog on EEFIT Team missions that looked at recovery from earthquakes and tsunami in three locations in Indonesia and Thailand. The aim of the blog was to share observations from the field with the general public. This has increased interest in people being involved in EEFIT missions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eefit.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | EEFIT Mission Training session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The half day workshop was organised jointly by EEFIT and the LFE project team to provide basic training for Team Leaders and Team Members to operate in post disaster field environments; to provide guidance on considerations for organising missions including roles and responsibilities; to provide guidance on Health and Safety procedures and related requirements before, during and after missions; to provide guidance on data collection in the field (where this particular grant fit in); and to provide guidance on expected EEFIT outputs including reporting formats and timelines for output delivery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://research.ncl.ac.uk/learningfromearthquakes/newsevents/eefitmissiontrainingsession.html |
| Description | EEFIT-TDMRC Presentation of the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and Tsunami Reconnaissance Mission Observations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation of the observations made from the 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami was delivered at WillisTowersWatson building in London on the 17th December 2018. The presentation provided an overview of the impact of the natural hazard events on the local environment, people and infrastructure. Important observations were made on the nature of the landslides that occurred as a result of the earthquake - linking these to the presence of an irrigation channel. The talk sparked significant interest from the academic and professional community, and from Save The Children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with Shelter Cluster in Palu, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The EEFIT team explained the field situation to people in the Shelter Cluster in Palu, who are responsible for the coordination or emergency shelters. They requested clarification of some of the observed hazard and information that had been relayed to them. EEFIT were able to explain in non-technical language their observations and wrote an e-mail with advice on the placement of future shelters, listing areas they thought were unsafe. E.g. § Areas West of Irrigation Channel § Avoid direct coastline (because ground had lowered) § Bottom of steep cuttings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ICE Lecture on EEFIT mission: 2020 Zagreb, Croatia, Earthquake |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This lecture summarised the work of the EEFIT mission to the Zagreb, Croatia earthquake. The earthquake reconnaissance was conducted remotely, due to COVID restrictions. The presentation demonstrated the tools and methods used to conduct the remote mission with discussion of their advantages and disadvantages. The lecture was delivered to engineers and general public, through online means, and was hosted by the Institution of Civil Engineers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/the-zagreb-earthquake-of-march-2020-webinar |
| Description | IStructE Lecture on EEFIT mission: 2020 Aegean earthquake and tsunami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This lecture summarised the work of the EEFIT mission to the Aegean earthquake. The seismic event, which hit the Turkish and Greek coastline on 30 October 2020, also caused a tsunami. The mission brought together field and remote mission strategies. It explored ways to maximise efficacy in data collection to capture the event characteristics and response due to both hazards. The lecture was deliverd to engineers and general public, through online means, and was hosted by the Institution of Structural Engineers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.istructe.org/resources/case-study/2020-eefit-aegean-earthquake-mission/ |
| Description | LfE Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The LfE website promotes the project and the related outputs and work. It has increased interest in earthquake reconnaissance, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://research.ncl.ac.uk/learningfromearthquakes/ |
| Description | Podcast focusing on how science advice, data and evidence are used by decision makers in government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rob Doubleday, Director of University of Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy discusses how SAGE and modelling advice were used during the Nepal Earthquake in April 2015. He's joined by James Jackson, an Earthquake Geologist and Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Professor Emily So, an Architectural Engineer and Director of the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE). Both James and Emily work on earthquakes, what causes them and what damage they do. Their collective expertise have stemmed from years of fieldwork funded by NERC and EPSRC, providing avenues for instrumenting and monitoring seismic activity, collection of empirical data pre and post earthquakes and local networking opportunities. All of these have been essential for advancing knowledge and in providing advice to governments and aid agencies during emergencies. The intention of the podcast is to highlight how science advice, data and evidence are used by decision makers in government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/Research-Policy-Engagement/science-and-policy-podcast/science-advice-and-... |
| Description | Presentation at the American Geophysical Union 2018 Conference Special Session on the Sulawesi Tsunami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation of the findings of the EEFIT reconnaissance mission to Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami were presented at the special session at the American Geophysical Union Conference in December 2018. The presentation added to discussions on the uncertainty of the origin of the tsunami. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public Survey of disaster response after the 2020 Aegean Earthquake and Tsunami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public survey in Greek and Turkish and distributed through local newspapers and social media networks. Within 72 hours, 270 and 860 respondents completed the surveys in Samos and the Izmir region, respectively. The surveys address the following: perceptions and behaviour towards seismic and tsunami risk; actual response to the events; capacity to respond; impact and sustained losses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Thematic Talk by Prof. Tiziana Rossetto at the ICONHIC2019 Conference including observations from the 2018 Sulawesi tsunami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Thematic Talk by Prof. Tiziana Rossetto at the ICONHIC2019 Conference in Crete, Greece in June 2019. The Thematic talk is on tsunami engineering from numerical analysis to the field, and includes observations from the 2018 Sulawesi Tsunami. These observations were collected during the field reconnaissance mission in November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://iconhic.com/2019/speaker/prof-tiziana-rossetto/ |
| Description | Tools and Methods for Post-Disaster Reconnaissance Missions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 80 people attended a workshop held online to discuss the state of practice and advances in tools for post-earthquake reconnaissance. The event was aimed at improving understanding of advanced methods and tools to collect, interpret, exploit and disseminate post-earthquake impact data. In particular, tools were looked at that can be used to support hybrid or remote field missions, which might well become the "new-normal" practice. 14 speakers from international agencies that conduct field missions presented their tools and experience and significant discussion was had. Feedback for the workshop was extremely positive and further engagement will ensue for the production of a white paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLONz_E1ldJZu5SaFsmzGJgKbe8YwRrcmj |
| Description | Training in damage assessment App and SDI preceding 2020 Aegean earthquake and tsunami remote mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a training session delivered to Msc and PhD students of the Middle East Technical University (Turkey), where they were trained to use the earthquake and tsunami building damage assessment App and SDI uploader. The students used the App to collect information on building damage on the ground in Samos (Greece) and Izmir (Turkey) and uploaded the information to the project SDI (database of digital information). We could not deploy due to COVID restrictions, and hence conducted the reconnaissance mission remotely through training local students in the use of our tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Training in damage assessment App and SDI preceding Croatian earthquake remote mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a training session delivered to Msc students of the University of Zagreb, where they were trained to use the earthquake building damage assessment App and SDI uploader. The students used the App to collect information on bulding damage on the ground in Zagreb and uploaded the information to the project SDI (database of digital information). We could not deploy due to COVID restrictions, and hence conducted the reconnaissance mission remotely through training local students in the use of our tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Training on EEFIT Mobile App delivered EEFIT MEMBERS prior to deployment to the Albania Mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prior to the deployment to the Albania MIssion, 5 EEFIT Members received training and support while on site on the use of the mobile app. These members were all with a civil engineering/structural engineering background. Some coming from Academia (UCL, IUSS) and some from industry (ARUP, MottMacdonald) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training on EEFIT Mobile App delivered to MSc students of the EEDM course prior to annual field trip deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training Session to MSc students of the Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management Course at UCL, delivered prior to deployment to the annual field trip to Central Italy. The experiment aimed at understanding the importance of delivering training and to observe the quality of the data recorded by the students and how clear is the rationale of the mobile app itself. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Video Blog of the 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Reconnaissance Mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A video blog was created whilst in the field during the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance mission. The vlog was followed by many, and information in the vlog was used as part of the teaching material in an undergraduate module in Earth Sciences at Edinburgh University, as an example of multi-hazards situation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://eefit-indonesia.com/ |