Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters

<p>1. Protocols for developing imagery-based preliminary damage assessments<br>2. Earth observation for earthquake risk and damage assessment<br>3. Disaster risk reduction through the training of masons and public information campaigns: Experience of SDC’s Competence Centre for Reconstruction in Haiti<br>4. The most useful countermeasure against giant earthquakes and tsunami: What we learned from interviews of 164 tsunami survivors<br>5. Earthquake risk in SE Asia: Engineering vs human nature<br>6. Estimating seismic losses in real time and for future disasters<br>7. Forecasting seismic risk as an earthquake sequence progresses<br>8. How to render schools safe in developing countries<br>9. The socioeconomic impact of earthquake disasters<br>10. The contribution of paleoseismology to earthquake hazard evaluations<br>11. The role of microzonation in estimating earthquake risk<br>12. Why the standard probabilistic methods of estimating seismic hazard and risks are too often wrong<br>13. The ongoing practical benefits of probabilistic seismic hazard assessment<br>14. Precarious rocks providing upper limits on past ground shaking from earthquakes<br>15. Quantifying Improvements in earthquake hazard estimates through testable models<br>16. Duties of earthquake forcasting<br>17. The experience of real time earthquake predictions on Kamchatka<br>18. Times of increased probabilities for the occurrence of catastrophic earthquakes: 25 years of the hypothesis testing in real time<br>19. Review of the nationwide earthquake early warning in Japan during its first five years<br>20. To what extent can engineering reduce the seismic risk?<br>24. Decision making under uncertainty: Insuring and reinsuring earthquake risk</p>