The Physical Setting's Role in Earthquake Injuries: Mexico Experience

1985年9月的墨西哥地震提供了在美国预期发生的大地震中实际伤害的潜在数据，这些数据可以帮助修改目前过于笼统的伤害预防建议。将对墨西哥地震的受害者进行回顾性研究。本研究将涉及建筑学、结构工程学和流行病学的观点和方法，以确定损伤模式以及特定类型的损伤与特定物理环境和/或乘员特征之间的可能联系。这项跨学科的调查有望：(1)显著增加地震中人类伤害的数据库，(2)为制定建筑特定规划、设计和居住者响应指南提供基础。

The September, 1985 Mexico earthquake provides potential data on actual injuries in a major earthquake of the type expected in the U.S. Such data could help modify current injury-prevention recommendations, which are currently too general. A retrospective study of victims of the Mexico earthquake will be conducted. This research, involving perspectives and methods from architecture, structural engineering, and epidemiology, will be done to identify patterns of injury and possible associations between specific types of injury and specific physical settings and/or occupant characteristics. This interdisciplinary investigation is expected to: (1) significantly increase the data base on human injury in earthquakes, and (2) serve as a basis for the formulation of building-specific planning, design, and occupant response guidelines.