1. Post-earthquake damage assessment: feedback from a cross-border crisis exercise
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Samuel Auclair, Christian Iasio, Andreï Balgiu, Antoni Blasquez, Jean-Christophe Castagnos, Emilie Crochet, Olivier Dalverny, Xavier Goula, Paco Martinez, Philippe Méresse, Philippe Soulé-Péré, Ghislaine Verrhiest-Leblanc, and Auclair, Samuel
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Earthquake ,Post-earthquake damage assessment ,Crisis management digital platform ,Crisis exercise ,Cross-border disaster management ,[SDE.ES] Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society - Abstract
In November 2021, a large-scale crisis exercise was organized in the heart of the Pyrenees. The main objective of this cross-border exercise between France, Spain and Andorra was to allow practitioners to prepare for a largescale earthquake, by testing the contribution of the tools developed within the framework of the European project POCRISC. Among the different functions activated during the exercise, this article focuses on the particularly critical function of emergency assessment of building damage. It analyses the feedback from the exercise participants asked to evaluate the deployment, coordination and operation of the damage assessment function, including the use of a tool developed specifically for these activities.