POST EARTHQUAKE FIELD INVESTIGATION OF THE M6.2 AQUILA, ITALY EARTHQUAKE OF APRIL 6, 2009

2009年4月6日发生6.2兆瓦级地震后，英国地震工程现场调查小组（EEFIT）决定对意大利阿布鲁佐地区进行一次侦察使命。一个由9人组成的小组（结构和岩土地震工程、地质学、地震学、伤亡和地理信息系统专家）计划于2009年4月17日前往意大利的拉奎拉，在灾区停留6天。该资助申请寻求财政支持，以帮助支付参与学术团队成员的差旅费和实地费用，并帮助EEFIT支持将收集的实地数据（照片和观察结果）输入到去年EPSRC资助的中国地震使命（资助参考：EP/G 030111/1）后开发的虚拟灾难查看器系统的改进版本中。这一平台将使全球地震工程界的成员，特别是通过比较受灾地区前后的卫星图像，审查和提供他们对损害的评估，并在收集到现场数据后，远程和实时上传这些数据，以便迅速传播。该使命的目标是调查和评估震中地区结构损坏、基础设施损坏和岩土工程故障的原因，并向英国工程和非专业界报告。调查还将包括伤亡和社会脆弱性评估方面。通过改进的虚拟灾害观察系统进行传播，将提高地震报告的效力，提高对地震风险的认识。它还将成为若干国际专家小组，特别是意大利联合研究中心的专家小组所作观察的共同存放处。因此，这一举措将继续加强现有的，并促进在EEFIT和世界各地的地震工程界的研究人员和工程师之间的新的关系。

The UK Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) has decided to mount a reconnaissance mission to the Abruzzo region of Italy following the earthquake of magnitude 6.2 MW, which occurred on the 6th April 2009. A team of nine people, (structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, geology, seismology, casualty, and GIS experts), are planning to leave for L'Aquila, Italy on the 17th April 2009 and spend six days in the disaster zone. This grant application seeks financial support to help meet the travel costs and field expenses of the participating academic team members and to aid EEFIT support entry of collected field data (photographs and observations) into an improved version of the Virtual Disaster Viewer system developed following the EPSRC funded China Earthquake mission last year (Grant Ref: EP/G030111/1). This platform will allow members of the global earthquake engineering community, especially to review and provide their assessment of damage by comparing before and after satellite images of the affected areas and to remotely and in real-time upload their own field data as it is collected for rapid dissemination. The objectives of the mission will be to investigate and assess the causes of structural damage, infrastructure damage and geotechnical failures in the epicentral region and report back to the UK Engineering and lay community. The investigation will also include aspects of casualty and social vulnerability assessment. Dissemination through the improved Virtual Disaster Viewer system will increase the effectiveness of earthquake reporting, promoting awareness of earthquake risk. It will also be a shared repository for observations made by several international teams of experts, in particular those of the Joint Research Centre in Italy. Hence, this initiative will continue to strengthen existing, and foster new relationships between researchers and engineers in EEFIT and the worldwide earthquake engineering community.