The ShakeCast system is an openly available near–real-time post-earthquake information management system. ShakeCast is employed by public and private emergency responde [...]

In 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey anticipates releasing an updated version of ShakeMap. ShakeMap version 4.0 will represent a major departure from all previous versions [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made significant progress toward the rapid estimation of shaking and shakingrelated losses through their Did You Feel It? (DYFI), Sh [...]

Post-earthquake financial decision-making has evolved considerably over the past decade. Insurers and reinsurers, private companies, governments, and aid organizations ha [...]

In Switzerland, nearly all historical MW ~> 6 earthquakes are associated to damaging rockslides, resulting in some cases into destruction of settlements and loss of li [...]

The Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System plays a primary alerting role for global earthquake disasters as part of the U.S. Geological Surve [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquake’s Response (PAGER) Project and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s World Housing Enc [...]

The US Geological Survey is adding post-earthquake fatality estimation capability to its Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) system. PAGER’s go [...]

We discuss the development of a global database of building inventories for pre-earthquake risk analysis and for use in near-real-time post-earthquake loss estimation for [...]