Hurricanes Earthquakes and Houses in the Caribbean

Hurricanes Earthquakes and Houses in the Caribbean

An Information Kiosk from the University of the West Indies, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad.

Featuring animated simulations of the effects of hurricanes and earthquakes on Caribbean houses.

These simulations are programs that are streamed to your browser from the server. But you must first download (10 mins approx) and install the Neuron plug-in. Click the button below.

Dominican Republic. Hurricane Georges 1998. Photo credit: EERI.

Hurricanes in the Caribbean region are of increasing regularity and cause death and millions of dollars in destruction.

An effective means of disaster mitigation is by education and increased awareness programmes.

Please click below to view the presentation.

Hurricanes and Houses Information Kiosk

Earthquakes and Houses Information Kiosk

UWI Earthquake Retrofitting Manual for Houses

Download ENGLTHA - Educational freeware for Earthquake Nonlinear and General Linear Dynamics Computations

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California, U.S.A. Coalinga earthquake 1983. Photo credit: USGS.

Devastating earthquakes have occurred in the Caribbean in the past and can cause even more death and destruction than hurricanes.