By Josh DeBare, Nick Miragliotta, Kevin Schultz, Matt Zoner
In Collaboration with Re:Rise

Bucharest, Romania, experiences a major earthquake on average every 80 years, yet most citizens live in seismically vulnerable buildings. Conducting interviews with seismic experts, locating seismically vulnerable buildings in Bucharest, and structuring a newspaper article, the project aimed to assist the Romanian NGO Re:Rise to conduct seismic risk assessments and inform the public on the seismic risk of historical buildings. The team generated recommendations for conducting seismic risk assessments, used GIS to identify 480 buildings as a historically vulnerable building type, and outlined the structure for an article about the severity of the issue. The team hopes that the project inspires change by helping to prepare the citizens of Bucharest for the next major earthquake.