Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery

地震勘测在地震工程中起着非常重要的作用，因为它可以收集到有关建筑物性能的易逝数据，而这些数据是无法通过其他方式获得的。这些数据可用于准备损坏统计数据，校准和验证工程模型，更重要的是，确定哪些设计和/或施工缺陷导致结构性能不足。这项研究超越了工程师的直接需求，因为它可以为全球制定新的减少灾害风险政策和减灾实践提供证据基础。在英国，自1982年以来，EEFIT一直在进行地震现场调查，报告观察到的破坏情况，并鼓励研究抗震设计和评估的建筑标准。这项研究将利用EP/I 01778 X/1中获得的经验，继续并扩大减少并最终消除地震造成的重大死亡、经济损失和社会动荡风险的重要工作。这笔赠款将使英国的学者继续参与EEFIT进行的地震现场调查，并改善与美国，澳大利亚和新西兰以及欧洲的国际同行的协调。增加英国地震风险降低活动，改善EEFIT使命调查结果的传播，并进一步增加其影响。这项研究不仅将继续收集灾后的宝贵信息，而且还将开发收集和解释这些数据的新方法，并进一步制定标准的国际灾害数据收集协议。这些数据将被存放在一个独特的未来证明存储库中，使研究人员和其他利益相关者能够轻松访问和使用这些信息。这一点很重要，因为它不仅使英国能够保持在地震工程研究的最前沿，但它将帮助捐助国和其他组织更准确地评估灾害的严重程度，从而更好地将正确的资源用于救援和重建工作。

Earthquake reconnaissance plays an invaluable role in earthquake engineering, as it enables the collection of perishable data on building performance that are otherwise unobtainable. Such data can be used to prepare damage statistics, calibrate and validate engineering models and crucially, to decide what design and/or construction deficiencies lead to inadequate structural performance. This research goes beyond the immediate needs of engineers as it can provide the evidence base for the development of new disaster risk reduction policies and mitigation practices worldwide. In the UK, earthquake field investigations have been conducted by EEFIT since 1982, reporting on the damage observed and inspiring research into building standards for earthquake resistant design and assessment. This research will use the experience gained in EP/I01778X/1 to continue and expand important work in reducing and eventually eradicating the risk of significant death, damage to the economy, and social upheaval resulting from earthquakes. This grant will enable UK based academics to continue to participate in earthquake field investigations conducted by EEFIT and to improve coordination with international equivalents in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, and Europe. grow UK earthquake risk reduction activities, improve the dissemination of EEFIT Mission findings and further increase their impact. Not only will this research continue to collect valuable information in the aftermath of a disaster, but it will also develop new methods of collecting and interpreting this data as well and further develop standard international disaster data collection protocols. This data will be housed in a unique future proof repository that will allow researchers and other stakeholders to easily access and use the information This is important as not only will it enable the UK to stay at the forefront of earthquake engineering research, but it will assist donor countries and other organizations to more accurately access the severity of the disaster and therefore to better target the correct amount of resource for relief and rebuilding efforts.