On 7 November 2012 at 10:35 am local time, the southwestern region of Guatemala was impacted by a strong earthquake that provoked fatalities and losses. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake had its epicenter 35 kilometers south of the Port of Champerico in the Retalhuleu Department. The National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala (CONRED) conducted a damage and needs assessment and confirmed that most damages took place in the highlands.
Hung-Chin Jang et al. (2009). Rescue Information System for Earthquake Disasters Based on MANET Emergency Communication Platform. IWCMC’09, June 21–24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany.
L.Rudy (2011) NASA Imagery Aids Japanese Response to Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Events. Earthzine posted on March 28th, 2011 in Disaster Management, Earth Observation
Multiple earthquakes, with the strongest two measuring 5.7 and 5.6 on the Richter scale, struck the mountainous rural regions of Yunnan and Guizhou, in the Yiliang and Weining counties in southwest China on Friday 7 September 2012, killing at least 80 people and injuring more than 160 others. As a result of the earthquakes in this mountainous area, landslides have also been experienced. The most serious damage was in Yiliang county, where the majority of the fatalities occurred. An estimated 100,000 people have been evacuated and approximately 20,000 houses were destroyed.
C. R. Farquhar (2011). POST-EARTHQUAKE BUILDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGE MAPPING USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTIONSATELLITE IMAGERY. Proc. of the ESA-EUSC-JRC 2011 Image Information Mining conference, paper 29, p. 121 - 124
Twitter
Google+
