USGS cooperation with China Geological Survey: site visit September 20-30, 2008

Report Series: Administrative, October, 2008

U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey

Trip Leader: Ed Harp, LHP *1

Summary Report: Angela Jayko, ESP *2

Also in USGS Contingent: Randy Jibson *1, Jonathan Godt *1

*1 Landslide Hazards Program, Central Multihazards Team
*2 NCGMP, Western Earth Surface Processes Team

Engineering Resilient Cities

Earthquake and Landslide Hazards: Preparations, Response and Reconstruction

Stephen Mahin
Byron and Elvira Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
University of California, Berkeley

Presented at: US-PRC Workshop on Disaster Management
October 27, 2008 - Menlo Park, CA

Sponsored by US Dept of State
Contact: Fernando R. Echavarria, Office of Space & Advanced Technology

Title: "Sichuan Earthquake Region and Giant Panda Conservation"

Authors: Kathy Nutter, Susan Simon, Dan Schmitt, Kevin Smits
All rights reserved, (c) 2009

Originally produced for Landscape Architecture Course 375 - Regional Design, Fall 2008, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Instructor: Janet Silbernagel

Title: "Sichuan Earthquake Response"

Authors: Curt Staats, Shelly Strom, Leigh Presley
All rights reserved, (c) 2009

Originally produced for Landscape Architecture Course 375 - Regional Design, Fall 2008, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Instructor: Janet Silbernagel

Title: "Sichuan Earthquake Infrastructure & Conservation Planning"

Authors: Pat Callahan, Hogan Edelberg, Andrew Kibbe, Elliot Hansen
All rights reserved, (c) 2009

Originally produced for Landscape Architecture Course 375 - Regional Design, Fall 2008, University of Wisonsin - Madison. Instructor: Janet Silbernagel

Sichuan earthquake one year report - May 2009

One year after the Wenchuan earthquake, the response has shifted to recovery and reconstruction. Much work remains to be done, as survivors of the earthquake rebuild their lives and communities. Recovery and reconstruction programmes are anticipated to continue for an additional two years.

The GIS Center for Environment and Disaster Mitigation (Niigata University) sponsored a forum at Niigata, Japan, March 2nd 2009.

Attendees included:
Abe Nobuyuki, Director of GIS Center for Environment and Disaster Mitigation
Li Jing, Beijing Normal University
Ken Xiansheng Hao, National Research Institute for Earth Science & Disaster Prevention [NIED], Japan

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Geo-Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance (GEER) Association carried out a field investigation in conjunction with Chinese colleagues from August 3-11 to document effects of the May 12 earthquake.

Team leader:
Marshall Lew of MACTEC Engineering and Consulting

EERI Team members:
David Friedman, Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc.
Dennis Lau of Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc.
Laurie Johnson, urban planning consultant, San Francisco
Tricia Wachtendorf, Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware

Reports from the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (Hong Kong), assert that unrest in the city of Baolin has resulted in clashes with government paramilitary troops. The situation is said to have unfolded in disputes over the availability of relief funds set aside for earthquake victims by the central government.

This archive includes three strategies, developed by students from University of Wisconsin, for landscape recovery and Giant panda conservation in the Wenchuan Earthquake region.