The street as an area of human exposure in an earthquake aftermath: the case of Lorca, Spain, 2011

Rojo, Marc Bertran; Beck, Elise; Lutoff, Céline

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-581-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-581-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-581-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 4

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19 Apr 2017

Review article |

| 19 Apr 2017

The street as an area of human exposure in an earthquake aftermath: the case of Lorca, Spain, 2011

Marc Bertran Rojo, Elise Beck, and Céline Lutoff

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RC1: 'Comments on the paper entitled: "The street, an area exposed to earthquakes (the Lorca case, Spain 2011)"', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Answer referee comment posted', Marc Bertran Rojo, 04 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Novel approach, but some weknesses in article structure and results could be analyzed in more depth', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Answer referee comment posted', Marc Bertran Rojo, 26 Jul 2016

Short summary

The Lorca earthquake (Spain; 11 May 2011) killed 9 people, injured over 300 and caused huge damage. The vicinity of buildings in the street was the most unsafe area for people. This article proposes a method to study individual evacuation after a seism. Applied to Lorca, it shows the spatio-temporal variability of individual exposure in the street after the shake. The results of this study are helpful to preventive actions in places with moderate seismicity, stressing the danger of the street.