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

地震勘察在地震工程中发挥着不可估量的作用，因为它能够收集有关建筑物性能的易腐烂数据，否则无法获得这些数据。这些数据可用于编制损坏统计数据、校准和验证工程模型，更重要的是，可用于确定哪些设计和/或施工缺陷导致结构性能不佳。这项研究超越了工程师的直接需求，因为它可以为全世界制定新的减少灾害风险政策和减轻灾害的做法提供证据基础。在英国，EEFIT自1982年以来一直进行地震现场调查，报告观察到的破坏情况，并启发对建筑抗震设计和评估标准的研究。这项研究将利用在EP/I01778X/1中获得的经验，继续和扩大在减少并最终消除地震造成的重大死亡、经济破坏和社会动荡风险方面的重要工作。这笔赠款将使驻英国的学者能够继续参与EEFIT进行的地震现场调查，并改善与美国、澳大利亚、新西兰和欧洲的国际同行的协调。加强英国减少地震风险的活动，改善EEFIT任务结果的传播，并进一步增加其影响。这项研究不仅将在灾害发生后继续收集有价值的信息，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。这些数据将存放在一个独特的未来验证储存库中，该储存库将允许研究人员和其他利益攸关方轻松访问和使用这一重要信息，因为它不仅将使英国保持在地震工程研究的前沿，而且将帮助捐助国和其他组织更准确地获取灾难的严重程度，从而更好地确定用于救灾和重建工作的正确资源量。

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.