Deb Robertson's Blog 19/02/2016: Five Years
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 February 2016 entitled, "Five Years".The entry was downloaded on 2 November 2016.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 February 2016 entitled, "Five Years".The entry was downloaded on 2 November 2016.
A story submitted by David Hopkins to the QuakeStories website.
The operation of telecommunication networks is critical during business as usual times, and becomes most vital in post-disaster scenarios, when the services are most needed for restoring other critical lifelines, due to inherent interdependencies, and for supporting emergency and relief management tasks. In spite of the recognized critical importance, the assessment of the seismic performance for the telecommunication infrastructure appears to be underrepresented in the literature. The FP6 QuakeCoRE project “Performance of the Telecommunication Network during the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence” will provide a critical contribution to bridge this gap. Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between national and international researchers and highly experienced asset managers from Chorus, data and evidences on the physical and functional performance of the telecommunication network after the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010-2011 have been collected and collated. The data will be processed and interpreted aiming to reveal fragilities and resilience of the telecommunication networks to seismic events