11 March 2011 | General
The COST Office is very saddened to hear about the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since 1707
Some resources which may help include...
- Google's person finder which they have launched for the Japan quake
- IRIS, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, has an interactive seismic monitor
- This map shows predicted travel times of tsunamis resulting from the earthquake
The COST office has a cooperation with New Zealand, and a member of staff in the country, and so news of this earthquake strikes a chord as it comes shortly after the quake in Christchurch, New Zealand last month.COST Action C26 has contributed to the important area of research into increasing the knowledge of the behaviour of constructions in urban habitat under catastrophic events (earthquakes, fire, wind, impact, explosions etc.), in order to predict their response when both the applied loading and the inherent structural resistance are combined in such a way that the safety level reaches unacceptable values, leading in some cases to a premature collapse.
