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

2009年4月6日发生6.2兆瓦地震后，英国地震工程现场调查队(EEFIT)决定对意大利阿布鲁佐地区执行侦察任务。一个由9人组成的团队(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L阿奎拉，在灾区停留6天。这项拨款申请寻求财政支持，以帮助支付参与的学术团队成员的旅费和实地费用，并帮助EEFIT支持将收集的实地数据(照片和观测)进入去年EPSRC资助的中国地震任务后开发的虚拟灾难查看器系统的改进版本(赠款编号：EP/G030111/1)。这一平台将使全球地震工程界成员，特别是通过比较受灾地区卫星图像前后的情况，审查和提供损失评估，并在收集现场数据以便快速传播时远程实时上传他们自己的数据。特派团的目标将是调查和评估震中地区结构破坏、基础设施破坏和岩土工程故障的原因，并向英国工程和非专业人员社区报告。调查还将包括伤亡和社会脆弱性评估等方面。通过改进的虚拟灾害观测者系统进行传播将提高地震报告的有效性，提高对地震风险的认识。它还将共享几个国际专家组的意见，特别是意大利联合研究中心的专家组的意见。因此，这一倡议将继续加强EEFIT和世界地震工程界的研究人员和工程师之间的现有关系，并促进他们之间的新关系。

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.