Japan is exposed to several natural phenomena; the damages caused by earthquakes were enormous in particular. An emergency shelter is a place for people to temporarily live when they cannot remain in their previous homes, and it is necessary for each...
Historical data have demonstrated that earthquakes can happen any time of the day and night. Drills may help communities to better prepare for such emergencies. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 4 October to 20 November 2017, in Mexico City...
28 July 2021
Social media data are constantly updated, numerous, and characteristically prominent. To quickly extract the needed information from the data to address earthquake emergencies, a topic-words detection model of earthquake emergency microblog messages...
To address the problems of the text of earthquake emergency information keeps changing incrementally with the time of an earthquake’s occurrence and there being more and more information categories, thus making it difficult to identify earthqua...
Information from social media microblogging has been applied to management of emergency situations following disasters. In particular, such blogs contain much information about the public perception of disasters. However, the effective collection and...
The prediction of casualties in earthquake disasters is a prerequisite for determining the quantity of emergency supplies needed and serves as the foundational work for the timely distribution of resources. In order to address challenges such as the...
In order to reduce the harm of earthquakes to human society, all governments actively promote the construction and development of earthquake emergency rescue work. The earthquake emergency response involves many departments, multiple personnel and la...
Strong earthquakes induce a large number of secondary disasters, such as landslides, which bring serious challenges to post-disaster emergency rescue, and the rapid and accurate assessment of earthquake-induced landslide disasters is crucial for post...
The resilience of cities has received worldwide attention. An accurate and rapid assessment of seismic damage, economic loss, and post-event repair time can provide an important reference for emergency rescue and post-earthquake recovery. Based on ci...
Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented global disruption with considerable impact on human activities. However, natural hazards and related disasters do not wait for SARS-CoV-2 to vanish, resulting in the emergenc...
Earthquakes are sudden and highly destructive events that severely disrupt infrastructure and logistics systems, making accurate and timely emergency material demand forecasting a critical challenge in disaster response. However, the scarcity of reli...
7 December 2019
Although several factors associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in disaster rescue workers were identified in previous studies, the results were inconsistent. This study aimed to explore the prognostic factors of PTSD among disaster res...
The increasing availability of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is opening new opportunities for operational support to predictive maintenance and emergency actions. With the purpose of investigating the performances of SAR images char...
Forecasting emergency drug demand (FEDD) during earthquakes is essential for optimizing logistics and improving disaster response efficiency. Traditional forecasting methods mostly rely on indirect forecasting, that is, predicting the number of casua...
On 6 February 2023, Turkey and Syria were hit by two major earthquakes that caused extremely heavy structural damage to buildings and infrastructure in one of the most densely populated areas of Anatolia. The authors visited the devastated area short...
This study presents a novel risk-based decision support system for helping disaster risk management planners select the best locations for emergency shelters after an earthquake. The system starts by identifying 18 criteria, based on stakeholder anal...
The level of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on a variety of factors, such as magnitude, duration, intensity, time of occurrence, and underlying geological features, which may be mitigated and reduced by the level of preparedness of risk...
9 November 2022
Information on the prevention of earthquakes in Peru, a high-risk country, is still emerging. We determined the frequency and factors associated with knowledge of evacuation routes and the use of emergency backpacks in people affected by a major eart...
Emergency material vehicle dispatching and routing (EMVDR) is an important task in emergency relief after large-scale earthquake disasters. However, EMVDR is subject to dynamic disaster environment, with uncertainty surrounding elements such as the t...
Recent natural and human-induced emergencies have highlighted the vulnerability of the built environment. In order to immediately answer to people’s needs while managing an emergency, any intervention should be more proactive and take into account re...
2 June 2022
At present, earthquakes cannot be predicted. Scientific decision-making and rescue after an earthquake are the main means of mitigating the immediate consequences of earthquake disasters. If emergency response level and earthquake-related fatalities...
Social media platforms have emerged as a critical infrastructure for disaster communication and emergency management. However, how public opinion varies across platforms during earthquake events and how such differences can inform resilient disaster...
Reasonable siting layout of reserve emergency supplies plays a critical role in rapid response and accurate rescue after disaster. People’s life safety and health, as well as the psychological satisfaction brought by the government’s exce...
An efficient humanitarian emergency logistics network is vital in responding to earthquake disasters. However, the asymmetric information inherent in the location and distribution stages can complicate the humanitarian emergency logistics network des...
In dealing with emergency events, it is very important when making scientific and correct decisions. As an important premise, the creation of information needs is quite essential. Taking earthquakes as a type of unexpected event, this paper construct...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great significance for post-earthquake damage assessment. Smartphone-based monitoring techniques provide the possibility to perform crowdsensing for all buildings in urban regions after an earthquake. However,...
After a major earthquake, the rapid identification and mapping of co-seismic landslides in the whole affected area is of great significance for emergency rescue and loss assessment of seismic hazards. In recent years, researchers have achieved good r...
Multiple uncertainties in traffic demand fluctuations and infrastructure vulnerability during seismic events pose significant challenges for the resilience assessment of highway transportation networks (HTNs). While Monte Carlo simulation remains the...
Earthquake-induced landslides (EQILs) represent a serious secondary disaster of earthquakes, and conducting an effective assessment of earthquake-induced landslide susceptibility (ELSA) post-earthquake is helpful in reducing risk. In light of the div...
Risk assessments of people who are trapped are an important basis for scientific and effective emergency rescue after an earthquake. Currently, most models are based on the kilometer grid scale or community scale that gauge the population and extent...
Recently, with the increased frequency of disasters, the demand for measures to secure the golden hour after disasters has been increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to plan and select road infrastructures for effective disaster response. The purpos...
30 May 2018
Background: Earthquakes causing significant damage have occurred frequently in China, producing enormous health losses, damage to the environment and public health issues. Timely public health response is crucial to reduce mortality and morbidity and...
Predicting evacuation patterns is useful in emergency management situations such as an earthquake. To find out how pre-trained individuals interact with one another to achieve their own goal to reach the exit as fast as possible firstly, we investiga...
Objective: The human body cannot withstand intense mechanical forces generated by an earthquake. The shaking effect of an earthquake, as the human body absorbs it, produces both visible and invisible injuries. Therefore, it is essential to provide ac...
In 2015, hazard mitigation became a top priority on the international agenda, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. When it comes to architectural heritage, it is crucial to develop tools and site-specific response plans...
Reasonable and efficient scheduling of rescuers plays a crucial role in earthquake emergency relief, which can effectively reduce disaster losses and promote social stability and sustainable development. Due to the suddenness of disasters, the urgenc...
In spite of the enhancements related to building construction, many regions still present a major level of seismic risk as a consequence of the high vulnerability of the urban configuration of their cities. An improved method to assess the seismic vu...
In early 2024, the largest full-scale exercise (FSE) for earthquakes and related geohazards in Greece was implemented in Crete Island (southern Greece). Crete is characterized by intense seismicity with historical and recent destructive earthquakes w...
Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) is a measure of the maximum ground shaking intensity during an earthquake. The estimation of PGA in areas affected by earthquakes is a fundamental task in seismic hazard assessment and emergency response. This paper pre...
Urban disaster risks are escalating, and university campus emergency shelters (UCESs) are key to alleviating the supply–demand imbalance in emergency shelter services (ESSs) within high-density central urban areas. However, existing studies lac...
Urban settlements located in high-seismicity areas should benefit from comprehensive vulnerability analyses, which are essential for the proper implementation of vulnerability modelling actions. Alas, many developing countries face a shortage of know...
Geoinformation and aerial data collection are essential during post-earthquake emergency response. This research focuses on the long-lasting spatial impacts of temporary solutions, which have persisted in regions of Central Italy affected by catastro...
24 October 2020
Introduction: With the Safety Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution (SELF DRIVE) Act in the United States, there is a growing interest in autonomous vehicles (AVs). One avenue of innovation would be to use them to mobiliz...
15 October 2016
The greater Wellington region, New Zealand, is highly vulnerable to large earthquakes because it is cut by active faults. Bulk water supply pipelines cross the Wellington Fault at several different locations, and there is considerable concern about s...
Background: On 6 February 2023, two major earthquakes occurred in Turkey on the same day. More than 50,000 people died, and more than 100,000 people were injured in these earthquakes. The aim of this study is to contribute to disaster management plan...
The massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February 2023 killed tens of thousands of people, and most of the deceased have not yet been identified. Many victims were pulled from the rubble hours or days later, injured and in need of assistan...
The response conducted by emergency units after natural disasters, such as earthquakes, has to be coordinated, fast, and efficient in order to rescue and care for the victims, keeping all the population—and the units themselves—safe amids...
An earthquake and tsunami on 1 January 2024, caused extensive damage across Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This study systematically examined the recovery process. It aimed to analyze the initial stages of recovery and highlight the lessons learned from...
30 September 2020
Awareness of the requested quantity and characteristics of emergency supplies is crucial for facilitating an efficient relief operation. With the aim of focusing on the quantitative study of immediate food supplies, this article estimates the numeric...
Intuitionistic fuzzy distance measurement is an effective method to study multi-attribute emergency decision-making (MAEDM) problems. Unfortunately, the traditional intuitionistic fuzzy distance measurement method cannot accurately reflect the differ...
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