Science to emergency management response
Author(s): |
Richard J. Woods
Sara K. McBride Liam M. Wotherspoon Sarah Beavan Sally H. Potter David M. Johnston Thomas M. Wilson Dave Brunsdon Emily S. Grace Hannah Brackley Julia S. Becker |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English |
Published in: | Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, June 2017, n. 2, v. 50 |
Page(s): | 329-337 |
DOI: | 10.5459/bnzsee.50.2.329-337 |
Abstract: |
The M7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake in 2016 presented a number of challenges to science agencies and institutions throughout New Zealand. The earthquake was complex, with 21 faults rupturing throughout the North Canterbury and Marlborough landscape, generating a localised seven metre tsunami and triggering thousands of landslides. With many areas isolated as a result, it presented science teams with logistical challenges as well as the need to coordinate efforts across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Many research disciplines, from engineering and geophysics to social science, were heavily involved in the response. Coordinating these disciplines and institutions required significant effort to assist New Zealand during its most complex earthquake yet recorded. This paper explores that effort and acknowledges the successes and lessons learned by the teams involved. |
Copyright: | © 2017 Richard J. Woods, Sara K. McBride, Liam M. Wotherspoon, Sarah Beavan, Sally H. Potter, David M. Johnston, Thomas M. Wilson, Dave Brunsdon, Emily S. Grace, Hannah Brackley, Julia S. Becker |
License: | This creative work has been published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license which allows copying, and redistribution as well as adaptation of the original work provided appropriate credit is given to the original author and the conditions of the license are met. |
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