Carine Yi

• Ph.D.
• Senior Researcher at R. Park & Associates Inc.

In November 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Philippines. It caused heavy loss of lives and extensive damages to buildings and infrastructure. When collapsed buildings are focused on, it is interesting to find that these buildings did not collapse for the same reasons after the landfall of the typhoon and storm surge. The objective of t...

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a significant nuclear power plant accident. Subsequent measurements of the concentration of cesium-137 (137Cs) showed that the litter and surface layers in the forest areas near the plant were significantly contaminated. This study applied the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), which has be...

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a significant nuclear power plant accident. Subsequent measurements of the concentration of cesium-137 (137Cs) showed that the litter and surface layers in the forest areas near the plant were significantly contaminated. This study applied the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), which has...

In modern society, enormous amounts of information are instantly exchanged, and topics shift rapidly. People desire and share information to foster a sense of membership in their societies. The trend of Internet communication is present in many types of groups. During the circumstances of disasters, the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and Tsunami...

Disaster education is one of the vital ways to overcome the gap between intention and action to deal with natural disasters. We conducted disaster education programs in Thailand (June 2014) and the Philippines (August 2014). In addition to the traditional way of teaching, various techniques were used in order to motivate students to pay attention a...

The Philippines, one of the disaster prone countries, was selected to be a case study focusing on its disaster warning system. The Philippines encountered the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan, the most severe storm in Asian region. This research focuses on the process management of the warning system through the enterprise engineering perspective. In orde...

School buildings are important facilities due to their capacity as evacuation shelters. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan and its storm surge damaged most schools in the affected area because they were one story structures built using weak material. Therefore, school buildings used as evacuation shelters did not function effectively. Thus, more studies on vu...

Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as “Yolanda”), which featured wind speeds of 315 km/h, corresponding to a category 5, struck the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines on November 8, 2013. The municipality of Tanauan, home to 50,907 people and 9,624 households in 54 barangays was one of the locations in Leyte Province. Because of Typhoon Hai...

Introduction " Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels " is one of the priority actions addressed by Hyogo Framework for action 2005-2015. In many developing countries, there are a large number of young age who have less experience in natural hazards. Philippines is located in the typhoon be...

Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims, another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, also known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, devastated the Eastern Visayas islands on 8 November 2013. Its classification as a super typhoon was based on its maximum sustained 1...

Field measurements and numerical simulations are used to assess the resons for different types of structural damage observed in Tacloban and Eastern Samar. Coastal Tacloban saw heavy damage due to wind waves riding atop storm surge, while inland Tacloban experienced much lighter damage because wind waves were not present (though inundation by surge...

On November 8, 2013 a powerful tropical cyclone, named as Super Typhoon Haiyan, struck the areas of Southeast Asian countries. The Eastern Visayas in the Philippines was one of the most affected regions due to the high winds and storm surge that inundated and destroyed more than one million houses. In Leyte and Samar islands, approximately 6,268 pe...

Super Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013 caused over 7,000 casualties by remarkably high wind speed, storm surges and waves. In this paper, characteristics of human loss in the coastal region of Leyte Island, Philippines were investigated based on the relationship between the observed inundation height and depth and the...

Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, also known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, devastated the Eastern Visayas islands on 8 November 2013. Its classification as a Super Typhoon was based on its maximum s...

Enormous natural disasters due to climate change are frequently observed all around the world. Unexpected catastrophes become a huge threat for community residents. Activating an evacuation order in a large-scale incident such as a wildfire depends on how information can be acquired in real time. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide highly...

The San Francisco South Bay Area in California is home to approximately seven million people that consist of nine counties and the prosperous core area of IT technology industry in the West Coast of America, well known as Silicon Valley. Sea level rising due to Global Warming is becoming the main issue in this area. Furthermore, the extreme weather...

The south part of the San Francisco Bay Area is home to millions of people. This unique area includes Silicon Valley where the heart of high-tech development and innovation, and operating one third of the venture capital in the USA. The government of the California State has been forcing to adapt to climate changes such as sea level rise and flash...