@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00000960,
 author = {Lin, Chu-Chieh Jay},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {At 14:28 local time on May 12, 2008, an MS 8.0 earthquake struck the Sichuan Provinces, China. Millions of houses were damaged, leaving approximately 4.5 million people homeless. The government reported around 69,200 dead (18,000 still missing) and 374,000 injured. Right after the earthquake, civil engineers as well as search and rescue team from Taiwan headed for the affected region to provide immediate assistance. The author arrived at the affected region on May 27th to collect information such as structural and geotechnical damages as well as emergency response. Schools, hospitals, residential buildings, lifelines, landslides and bridges were surveyed and thousands of photos were taken to document the destructions this catastrophic earthquake had made. It is sincerely hoped that these reconnaissance information shared herein could help us to establish a better management system for hazard mitigation and to make a safer society in the future.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {Reconnaissance Observation from May 12 China Earthquake},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2009}
}