Sentence examples for earthquake mitigation from inspiring English sources

We must push the limits of our technologies to deliver new earthquake mitigation strategies.

Unlike the wary Japanese, when it comes to earthquake mitigation the majority of Americans remain unshaken and unstirred.

At the same time, new earthquake mitigation techniques are allowing Tokyo to go vertical, with new high-rise buildings blocking cooling sea breezes.

But new earthquake mitigation techniques seem to be assuring people that living in a skyscraper is just as safe, and more pleasant, than enduring a one-hour train commute every morning.

Professor Erdik said in a telephone interview that earthquake mitigation in Turkey is not handled the same as it is in California: because strengthening the architecture is time-consuming and expensive, the objects are usually secured first.

In this paper, an innovative device, multidimensional earthquake isolation and mitigation device (MEIMD), is proposed, which can perform its "name-giving" task of earthquake isolation and earthquake mitigation simultaneously.

As there is a need to mitigate the damages caused by the earthquakes, therefore an effective model of earthquake disaster mitigation and management using formal methods and WSANs is proposed in this work.

Earthquake hazard mitigation should be recognized to be inherently political, involving a tradeoff between uncertain costs and uncertain risks.

This paper describes an investigation into a metallic energy dissipater designed for earthquake risk mitigation of civil structures.

Dr. Klaus Jacob, a senior research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and an executive committee member of the New York City Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation, estimated that a magnitude 5 earthquake could cause about $5 billion of damage.

This was added to a low estimated seismic risk, no earthquake disaster mitigation measures and no disaster management before the Bam 2003 earthquake.