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1 LESSONS FROM PAST NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES
Part VI of this lecture More lectures at Disasters Supercourse -  Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA 

2 PAST NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES
L’AQUILA, ITALY APRIL 6, 2009

3 EARTHQAKES ARE DYNAMIC LABORATORIES FOR LEARNING AND CATALYSTS FOR BUILDING CAPACITY FOR DISASTER-INTELLIGENT & DISASTER-RESILIENT COMMUNITES

4 THE L’AQUILA, ITALY AREA WAS DEVASTATED BY A MODERATE EARTHQUAKE
APRIL 6, 2009

5 OCCURRENCE

6 LOCATION

7 LOCATION MAP

8 LOCATION MAP

9 L'AQUILA (A TOWN OF 70,000) AND 26 VILLAGES DEVASTATED

10 INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING
CAUSES OF DAMAGE INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING SOIL AMPLIFICATION PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT (SURFACE FAULTING & GROUND FAILURE) IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN EARTHQUAKES “DISASTER LABORATORIES” FIRE FOLLOWING RUPTURE OF UTILITIES LACK OF DETAILING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INATTENTION TO NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

11 LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES PREPAREDNESS PLANNING FOR THE INEVITABLE GROUND SHAKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.

12 LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE IS ESSENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.

13 IMPACTS BUILDINGS

14 SANTA MARIA PAGANICA CHURCH

15 DAMAGE TO CHURCH

16 DAMAGE TO DOME OF CHURCH

17 A COLLAPSED SCHOOL: A PROTECTION NIGHTMARE
COLLAPSE OF A SCHOOL, A “SAFE HAVEN,” WITH THE LOSS OF YOUNG LIVES, CAN PARALYZE A COMMUNITY WITH GRIEF.

18 ONNA: 3 MILES FROM L'AQUILA

19 ONNA

20 AFTERSHOCKS EXACERBATE DAMAGE IN VILLAGE OF ONNA

21 276 DEAD IN A COLLAPSED BUILDING

22 DAMAGED HOUSE

23 LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES PREPAREDNESS PLANNING FOR THE INEVITABLE GROUND FAILURE IS ESSENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.

24 L'AQUILA: SITE EFFECTS FROM LOCATION IN OLD LAKE BED

25 DAMAGE TO ROAD

26 SEARCH AND RESCUE: COLLAPSED BUILDINGS

27 RESCUE WORKERS

28 LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES CAPACITY FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE IS ESSENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.

29 SEARCH AND RESCUE

30 SEARCH AND RESCUE

31 SEARCH AND RESCUE

32 RESCUED VICTIM

33 EVACUEE ASLEEP IN CAR

34 EVACUATION CENTER: UNIVERSITY SPORTS CENTER

35 EVACUEES: A STADIUM

36 EVACUEES HOUSED IN STADIUM

37 LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES CAPACITY FOR RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION IS ESSENTIAL FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.

38 IMPACTS UNIVERSITY DORM COLLAPSES VULNERABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGED
VULNERABLE UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS DAMAGED UNIVERSITY DORM COLLAPSES VULNERABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGED

39 IMPACTS TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS
AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED DEAD AND TWO THOUSAND INJURED TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS

40 GOING TO “PLAN B” Many earthquake survivors had to be transported to Rome for surgery and/or treatment due to shortage of resources in the L’Aquila area

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