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Mitigating earthquake risk in Australia
<p>Earthquake risk is not limited to tectonic plate boundary countries. While less frequent, significant earthquakes can occur in intraplate countries like Australia which can have severe consequences. For Australia this is particularly the case as earthquake hazard has not been recognised in the design of buildings and community infrastructure for most of the country’s settled history. Significant risks exist where community assets are by their nature inherently vulnerable to strong ground shaking. This paper describes three initiatives that are assisting Australian emergency management, infrastructure managers and local government to prepare for and mitigate these risks.
<p>The first of these highlights how the characteristics of geological hazards differ from severe meteorological hazards. The very non-linear nature of impact severity with longer average recurrence interval earthquakes is demonstrated and how this information is supporting emergency management planning including capacity sharing between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries in the region is described. Secondly, the paper describes how this research is developing knowledge of the factors behind the vulnerability of critical infrastructure facilities and the options to mitigate these. The software tool System for Infrastructure Facility Resilience Analysis (SIFRA) is described which enables infrastructure facility components to be examined in the context of physical vulnerability, system criticality, repair cost and restoration time. Finally, a utilisation project of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC working with the local government of York Shire in Western Australia (WA) is described. The project is providing information on the effectiveness of targeted retrofit of the heritage town of York to rare earthquakes and how this action by property owners can be incentivised.
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- 2019-04-03T22:26:25
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- 2019-04-08T04:48:50
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- 2019-05-20T05:11:26
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Edwards, M.R.
Author Rahman, M.
Author Ryu, H.
Author Wehner, M.
Author Corby, N.
Author Griffith, M.
Author Vaculik, J.
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Paper for 11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering https://www.confer.nz/pcee2019/
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earthquake risk
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earthquake mitigation
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- 2019-04-02T22:36:34
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