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Learning from Earthquake (UK) Remote Mission to Zagreb

15 July 2020

After the 5.3 Mw earthquake that hit Zagreb, Croatia, on 22 March 2020 and under Covid-19 restrictions, the LFE project team funded by the EPSRC, decided to investigate the effectiveness of performing a remote earthquake reconnaissance mission.

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After the 5.3 Mw earthquake that hit Zagreb, Croatia, on 22 March 2020 and under Covid-19 restrictions, the LFE project team funded by the EPSRC, decided to investigate the effectiveness of performing a remote earthquake reconnaissance mission, primarily through sourcing information from the internet and social media, but also by remotely deploying EEFIT data collection apps to novice users in Zagreb to enter building structures and damage information for assessment off site.

We considered the Zagreb earthquake a good case study for testing methods and analyses under development, with a view to improve the methodologies and provide recommendations on the use of these tools in standard reconnaissance missions in the future. Learn more about the local team from University of Zagreb and the locations they visited from their blogposts.

The tools tested on site with local students from University of Zagreb are the latest version of the EEFIT mobile app and the current stage of the SDI (Spatial Data infrastructure) repository. Principal investigators of these work packages are Prof Dina D’Ayala with Valentina Putrino and Dr Claire Ellul with Enrica Verrucci. Protocols and recommendation for future EEFIT missions are also in progress, under the lead of Dr Emily So (team leader of the remote mission to Zagreb) and Enrica Verrucci.

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