In its evaluation of the latest earthquakes that occurred round Cyprus, EMU DAUM identified 13 measures it has taken to cut back the results of doable earthquakes.
It was famous that Cyprus is positioned in a fancy area when it comes to tectonic plate actions, and this example has precipitated many earthquakes, together with the 7.0–7.5 magnitude earthquake that occurred in 1222 and the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that occurred west of Paphos on January 11, 2022.
It was said that the earthquake, which lately occurred within the Japanese Mediterranean and whose epicenter was introduced to be roughly 50 km away from the coast, was an vital warning for the island of Cyprus.
It was additionally famous that if the ruptures in some faults proceed, a “main earthquake” might happen. “The small and medium-sized earthquakes which have occurred across the island in recent times additionally counsel that the area has grow to be extra seismically energetic.” It was stated.
It was said that rescue, help and evacuation processes must be deliberate fastidiously in opposition to the results of doable earthquakes, and care must be taken to keep away from development errors in development.
Within the assertion stating that the earthquake threat discount program must be applied, the steps to be adopted had been listed as follows.
– “Renewal of the seismic hazard map based mostly on the nation's seismological findings,
– Improvement of microzonation maps protecting all earthquake-related hazard parameters (these embrace floor movement depth, dominant interval, floor rupture, landslide, liquefaction, rockfall, giant residential areas and tsunami potentials).
– Strengthening and updating design and development requirements in response to new scientific and technical findings,
– Utilizing extra appropriate constructing supplies when it comes to seismic efficiency and sustainability in new buildings,
– Utility of superior and revolutionary structural methods to assemble buildings with excessive earthquake resistance,
– Classification of present constructing inventory to determine the commonest constructing varieties,
– Creating fragility curves or surfaces by figuring out applicable engineering calls for for every constructing kind,
– Making loss estimates for every constructing kind,
– Strengthening weak buildings, beginning with essentially the most pressing ones,
– Estimating the variety of doable victims, injured and homeless individuals in a doable earthquake and figuring out their fundamental wants,
– Growing the preparedness ranges of rescue and help groups,
– Figuring out appropriate shelter areas for homeless individuals,
– Creating a security tradition on the group degree in opposition to earthquakes and different sudden pure disasters and
– Institution of Neighborhood Help Facilities for native disasters in all cities, cities and villages.”
