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Data collection after the 2010 Maule earthquake in Chile

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This article presents an overview of the different processes of data recollection and the analysis that took place during and after the emergency caused by the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule earthquake in central-south Chile. The article is not an exhaustive recollection of all of the processes and methodologies used; it rather points out some of the critical processes that took place with special emphasis in the earthquake characterization and building data. Although there are strong similarities in all of the different data recollection processes after the earthquake, the evidence shows that a rather disaggregate approach was used by the different stakeholders. Moreover, no common standards were implemented or used, and the resulting granularity and accuracy of the data was not comparable even for similar structures, which sometimes led to inadequate decisions. More centralized efforts were observed in resolving the emergency situations and getting the country back to normal operation, but the reconstruction process took different independent routes depending on several external factors and attitudes of individuals and communities. Several conclusions are presented that are lessons derived from this experience in dealing with a large amount of earthquake data. The most important being the true and immediate necessity of making all critical earthquake information available to anyone who seeks to study such data for a better understanding of the earthquake and its consequences. By looking at the information provided by all these data, we aim to finally improve seismic codes and engineering practice, which are important social goods.

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Acknowledgments

This investigation has been funded by CONICYT under research grants Fondecyt 1141187 and by the National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management (CIGIDEN) CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017. The authors are very grateful for this support and acknowledge specially the support of many contributors to this work: Hernán de Solminihac, Emil Namur, Marco Almonacid, Rodrigo Sánchez, Boris de los Ríos, Camilo Grez, Carlos Fuenzalida, Sergio Contreras, Fernando Agüero, Michael Rendel, Angela Bahamondes, Carl Lüders, Raúl Álvarez, Jaime Arriagada, Sergio Barrientos, René Lagos, Tomás Guendelman, Gabriel Candia, Cristián Ledezma, Jorge Lindenberg, Benjamin Westenenk, Santiago Brunet, Ricardo Rojas, Paula Repetto, Andrea Vásquez, Jaime Palma, Juan Luis Gumucio, Richard Almuna, and Hugh Rudnik.

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  1. National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management (CIGIDEN) CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Carlos de la Llera, Felipe Rivera, Rosita Jünemann, Catalina Fortuño, Miguel Ríos, Matías Hube, Hernán Santa María & Rodrigo Cienfuegos

  2. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Carlos de la Llera, Rosita Jünemann, Matías Hube & Hernán Santa María

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Latrobe Hall 205, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Judith Mitrani-Reiser

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile

    Miguel Ríos

  5. Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile

    Rodrigo Cienfuegos

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de la Llera, J.C., Rivera, F., Mitrani-Reiser, J. et al. Data collection after the 2010 Maule earthquake in Chile. Bull Earthquake Eng 15, 555–588 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-016-9918-3

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