Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters

Rasoul Sorkhabi joined the Energy & Geoscience Institute and Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah as a Research Professor in 2003. Prior to EGI, he worked for the Japan National Oil Corporation and Arizona State University. Rasoul holds B.Sc. and M.Sc.degrees in Geology from India and a Ph.D. in Geology from Japan. Rasoul has over two decades of academic and industry experience, and has worked on projects in various parts of the world, from the fold-and-thrust belts through Tethys and Gondwana to deepwater toe-thrusts. Focus regions include Asia and theMiddle East, Africa, and North America. Rasoul has served as a contributing editor and on the editorial board for numerous journals and committees and has published and presented hundreds of papers in leading journals and notable books.

1. Protocols for developing imagery-based preliminary damage assessments 2. Earth observation for earthquake risk and damage assessment 3. Disaster risk reduction through the training of masons and public information campaigns: Experience of SDC’s Competence Centre for Reconstruction in Haiti 4. The most useful countermeasure against giant earthquakes and tsunami: What we learned from interviews of 164 tsunami survivors 5. Earthquake risk in SE Asia: Engineering vs human nature 6. Estimating seismic losses in real time and for future disasters 7. Forecasting seismic risk as an earthquake sequence progresses 8. How to render schools safe in developing countries 9. The socioeconomic impact of earthquake disasters 10. The contribution of paleoseismology to earthquake hazard evaluations 11. The role of microzonation in estimating earthquake risk 12. Why the standard probabilistic methods of estimating seismic hazard and risks are too often wrong 13. The ongoing practical benefits of probabilistic seismic hazard assessment 14. Precarious rocks providing upper limits on past ground shaking from earthquakes 15. Quantifying Improvements in earthquake hazard estimates through testable models 16. Duties of earthquake forcasting 17. The experience of real time earthquake predictions on Kamchatka 18. Times of increased probabilities for the occurrence of catastrophic earthquakes: 25 years of the hypothesis testing in real time 19. Review of the nationwide earthquake early warning in Japan during its first five years 20. To what extent can engineering reduce the seismic risk? 24. Decision making under uncertainty: Insuring and reinsuring earthquake risk