Base Earthquake

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Sanja Jerković
• Author: Nives Škreblin
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: TECHNICAL SCIENCES; Civil Engineering

Abstract (english)

Regardless of how much we follow the signs of their potential occurrence, disasters always come to us as a surprise for their force and extent, although we work day after day to develop a system and improve the way of action by learning to use new tools and creating new platforms. None of us had been prepared for what followed the 2020 earthquake, when the engineers of the Croatian Centre for Earthquake Engineering, the company GDI, and representatives of the City of Zagreb joined forces. Base Earthquake and all the analyses which resulted from this amazing synergy represented fundamental values for all the actions that followed: from damage reporting to the Solidarity Fund to ensuring individuals’ right to accommodation and exemption from the City of Zagreb utility charges. We strongly believe in the success of restoration plans because we hope they will reflect the same selflessness, knowledge, commitment, and a tremendous amount of positive energy. In other words, we can say that during this earthshaking lesson we have learnt five of Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for this Millennium (Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity), and we hope to prove that we have also acquired the last one that the author never managed to complete – consistency, i.e, that we will carry out the restoration in a regenerative and intelligent way, with the same courage and faith in the future of those that came before us.

• Keywords (english): Base Earthquake, Zagreb, Banija, earthquakes, 2020, restoration
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Unknown
• Publication version: Published version
• Publication title: 1st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 1CroCEE
• Numbering: pp. 1777-1786
• p-ISSN: 3043-8071
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5592/CO/1CroCEE.2021.277
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:237:297665
• Publication: 2021-03
• Conference: Title: st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering; Location: Zagreb, Croatia; Start date: 2021-03-22; End date: 2021-03-24; Assembly type: Lecture
• Type of resource: Text
• Publisher: Sveučilište u Zagrebu Građevinski fakultet
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2024-08-30 07:40:37