POST EARTHQUAKE FIELD INVESTIGATION OF THE M8.0 SAMOA ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

在2009年9月29日发生8.0兆瓦地震和随后发生的海啸之后，英国地震工程实地调查队(地震工程队)决定对萨摩亚群岛地区执行一项侦察任务。一个由6人组成的小组(沿海和地震工程师)计划于2009年11月3日前往萨摩亚的阿皮亚，在灾区停留6天，对地震和海啸进行技术评估，并通过调查破坏情况和采访当地政府官员和幸存者，对保护措施的有效性进行评估。小组的四名学术成员包括PI(Alison Hunt-Raby博士，普利茅斯大学讲师兼沿海工程师)、小组组长(Emily So博士，一名特许土木工程师，将受雇于普利茅斯大学担任研究员)和来自伦敦大学学院的两名研究人员(特里斯坦·罗宾逊教授和特里斯坦·劳埃德博士，他们都是海啸专家)。更多的团队成员正在实践具有地震学、海啸模型和岩土工程专业知识的工程师。这项申请寻求财政支持，以帮助支付参与的学术团队成员的旅费，并帮助EEFIT支持将收集的现场数据(照片和观测)进入2008年EPSRC资助的中国地震任务后开发的改进版本的虚拟灾难查看器系统(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。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。它还将是几个国际专家小组发表的意见的共享储存库。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 Samoa Islands region following the earthquake of magnitude 8.0MW, which occurred on the 29th September 2009 and subsequent tsunami. A team of six people, (coastal and earthquake engineers), are planning to leave for Apia, Samoa on the 3rd November 2009 and spend 6 days in the disaster zone to conduct a technical evaluation of the earthquake and tsunami and carry out an assessment of the effectiveness of protection measures by surveying the damage and interviewing local government officials and survivors of the event. The four academic members of the team comprise the PI (Dr Alison Hunt-Raby, a Lecturer and coastal engineer from the University of Plymouth), the team leader (Dr Emily So, a Chartered Civil Engineer who will be employed as a researcher at the University of Plymouth) and two researchers from University College London (Tristan Robinson, a Teaching Fellow and Tristan Lloyd, a PhD student, both tsunami specialists). The further team members are practicing engineers with expertise in seismology, tsunami modelling and geotechnical engineering.This application seeks financial support to help meet the travel costs 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 in 2008 (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. 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. Hence, this initiative will continue to strengthen existing, and foster new relationships between researchers and engineers in EEFIT and the worldwide earthquake engineering community.