Arcidiacono, V.

Damage Report With Smartphones During Emilia Earthquake, 2012

Abstract eng:
On May 20th and 29th 2012, two earthquakes of 5.9Mw and 5.8Mw have struck the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. The epicentres were between Finale Emilia and Medolla. The damage report during the emergency response was managed from the Italian Civil Protection and volunteers, using AEDES hardcopy forms. Since the use of smart phones is spreading among citizens our team decided to develop a smartphone application, which works on Android technology, to record the damage state of residential buildings. This was tested during the emergency response of Emilia earthquake to help the Piedmont Civil Protection on recording the damage report and, moreover, it was compared with the standard procedure based on the use of AEDES hardcopy forms.

Contributors:

Cimellaro, G-P.

Publisher:

National Technical University of Athens, 2013

Conference Title:

Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earhquake Engineering

Conference Title:

COMPDYN 2013 - 4th International Thematic Conference

Conference Venue:

Island of Kos (GR)

Conference Dates:

2013-06-12 / 2013-06-14