Project Details
Description
PREPARE (Enhancing PREParedness for East African Countries through Seismic Resilience Engineering) is a 3-year EPSRC-Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project between May 2017 and April 2020 (total award value of £1.38M). It tackles the global challenge of improving the earthquake disaster preparedness for East African countries by developing integrated earthquake impact assessment tools in close partnerships with local governmental and academic institutions. The project addresses the key scientific challenges in characterising the earthquake rupture potential in the East African Rift zone and applies advanced seismic resilience engineering methods to evaluate seismic vulnerability of unreinforced masonry structures in East Africa (both experimentally and numerically) and to develop effective low-cost solutions for enhanced community resilience.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 1/05/17 → 31/03/22 |
| Links | http://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP028233%2F1 https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2017/prepare.html |
Research Groups and Themes
- PREPARE
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Research output
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The drivers of Lower Crustal Earthquakes Along Magma-poor Portions of the East African Rift
Wedmore, L. N. J., Williams, J., Biggs, J., Fagereng, A., Holmgren, J. M., Werner, M. & Mphepo, F., 27 Jul 2025, In: Tectonika. 3, 2, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Fault-based probabilistic seismic hazard analysis in regions with low strain rates and a thick seismogenic layer: a case study from Malawi
Williams, J. N., Werner, M., Goda, K., Wedmore, L. N. J., De Risi, R., Biggs, J. J., Mdala, H., Dulanya, Z., Fagereng, A., Mphepo, F. & Chindandali, P., 14 Feb 2023, In: Natural Hazards. 233, 3, p. 2172-2207 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open Access14 Citations (Scopus) -
The Malawi Active Fault Database: An Onshore-Offshore Database for Regional Assessment of Seismic Hazard and Tectonic Evolution
Williams, J. N., Wedmore, L. N., Scholz, C. A., Kolawole, F., Wright, L. J., Shillington, D., Fagereng, A., Biggs, J., Mdala, H., Dulanya, Z., Mphepo, F., Chindandali, P. R. N. & Werner, M. J., 1 Apr 2022, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 23, 5, 25 p., e2022GC010425.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile30 Citations (Scopus)266 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 1 Finished
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PREPARE: Uganda
Biggs, J. J. (Principal Investigator) & Macdonald, J. H. G. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/19 → 31/07/19
Project: Research
Datasets
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Dataset_Kloukinas et al._JHBE_2019
Novelli, V. (Creator), Kafodya, I. (Creator), Ngoma, I. (Creator), Macdonald, J. (Creator), Goda, K. (Creator) & Macdonald, J. (Data Manager), University of Bristol, 29 May 2019
DOI: 10.5523/bris.14pm5de0nx8nw29az8rawx84ha, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/14pm5de0nx8nw29az8rawx84ha
Dataset