Public Consultations;Sustainable Development;Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Teleseismic Loss Estimates in Near-real-time after the M8 Wenchuan Earthquake of May 12, 2008
The World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction (WAPMERR) has the mission to estimate losses after earthquakes in near-realtime as rapidly and as accurately, as possible, and to report disasters immediately to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Similar efforts are planed to be implemented by other institutions because the worlds exponential population growth rapidly increases the seismic risk throughout the world. Many countries do not have regional seismograph networks that allow accurate locations and magnitude estimates within seconds to minutes. Therefore, teleseismic information must be used for loss calculations. The motivation for supplying rescue and recovery organizations with quantitative estimates of expected losses within less than an hour is that information from devastated areas does not flow freely. In major disasters, it invariably takes several days until the extent of it becomes known, based on eye witness reports.
Max Wyss Philippe Rosset Goran Trendafiloski
World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction,2 rue de Jargonnant, 1207 Gene World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction, 2 rue de Jargonnant, 1207 Ge World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction, 2 rue de Jargonnant,1207 Gen
国际会议
International Disaster and Risk Conference Chengdu 2009(2009 中国成都国际灾害风险大会论坛)
成都
英文
380-391
2009-07-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）