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Learning from the 3rd April 2024 Mw7.4 Hualien Earthquake, Taiwan – Auckland | Online
9 September 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
5.30pm Networking | 6.00pm Presentations
Lecture theatre 260-051, Business School Room, University of Auckland, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010 | Online
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering invites you to join us in Auckland, and online, on Monday, 9 September to learn from the impact of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Hualien, Taiwan on 3 April 2024.
Abstract
A NZSEE ‘Learning from Earthquakes’ team travelled to Taiwan during May and June 2024, to learn about the Mw7.4 Hualien Earthquake that struck on 3 April 2024. That was the largest and most impacting earthquake event in Taiwan since the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake.
In this seminar the team will share their observations of the changes and developments in Taiwan since 1999 and the impacts of this event, including seismic requirements and building performance, rapid building assessments, early warning systems for earthquakes and landslides, applications of GIS, approaches to reducing geohazard impact and enhancing infrastructure resilience, and emergency management policy and practices.
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Presenters
Alice Chang-Richards
Alice Chang-Richards is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Auckland. She is a member of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE). She has extensive field experience for earthquake recovery and reconstruction in New Zealand, Japan, China, Indonesia and the USA.
Bo-Yao Lee
Bo-Yao has over 25 years of experience in policy development and implementation, in the areas of property related engineering and design, emergency management, insurance and risk management. She has held senior technical advisory roles for several government property portfolios and currently works for the Ministry of Justice.
Doug Mason
Doug is an engineering geologist in WSP’s geotechnical risk and resilience team in Wellington, with 20 years’ professional experience. His principal areas of interest are the investigation and assessment of natural hazards and risks, assessing the seismic resilience of infrastructure, and interpretation of natural hazard effects for land use and infrastructure planning
Julian Benito
Julian Benito is a chartered structural engineer with more than 15 years of engineering consulting experience with a practice area in New Zealand in the design and assessment of low to medium rise structures. He is a Technical Principal with WSP in structural and earthquake engineering and a member of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE).
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