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Overview of the articles we have written on the New Zealand earthquake One year after the quake, a technical report on the deadly collapse of the Canterbury Television building has revealed what caused the structure to fail in last February's magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch New … [Read more...]
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Damage report in cooperation with the 2017 Earthquake Impact Database - EID on Google Docs – Update 08:11 UTC: Sad to bring the news that at least 1 person was killed and 2 others injured when a rockslide was triggered by the earthquake and a car was hit. Update 22:09 UTC: Maximum light shaking [...]
Damage report in cooperation with the 2017 Earthquake Impact Database - EID on Google Docs – Update 07:27 UTC: New update : sadly enough there was a further increase of the fatalities which stands now at 25. The number of injured slightly increased to 525. The material damage is however much bigger than initially thought. [...]
Damaging earthquake below Ischia, Naples, Italy - 2 people killed - August 21, 2017
Damage report in cooperation with the 2017 Earthquake Impact Database - EID on Google Docs – Update 13:25 UTC: Historic earthquakes on the island of #Ischia (red-yellow dots) and damage of recent quake (grey lines) Via David Bressan (@David_Bressan) and Steven Hicks (@Seismo_Steve) Update 09:52 UTC: The map below shows the strength of the acceleration [...]