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Concept of Community Fragilities for Tsunami Coastal Inundation Studies

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Park, Sangki, van de Lindt, John W., Cox, Daniel, and Gupta, Rakesh

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Tsunamis have devastated coastal regions worldwide, with the most recent being the result of the Great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, which was a M9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred off the east coast of Japan on March 11, 2011. In this study, a fragility formulation is utilized to develop...

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Successive earthquake-tsunami analysis to develop collapse fragilities

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Park, Sangki, van de Lindt, John W., Cox, Daniel, Gupta, Rakesh, and Aguiniga, Francisco

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Over the last half-century, scientists and engineers have developed methods to better understand and mitigate the damage caused by tsunamis. According to U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P646, buildings in many regions including the U.S. Pacific Northwest, will experience substantial ground shaking from an offshore earthquake that precedes a...

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Method to Determine Locations of Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Shelters

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Park, Sangki, van de Lindt, John W., Gupta, Rakesh, and Cox, Daniel

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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 Great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami focused a great deal of the world’s attention on the effect of tsunamis on buildings and infrastructure. When a tsunami impacts structures in a coastal community, the structures are often not strong enough to withstand the...

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