Barriers to Earthquake Preparedness

A Risk Representation Approach

This article is a summary of the work presented by the authors at the SECED November evening meeting 2013. It was announced a few days later that Joffe had been awarded the Lloyd’s Science of Risk prize for this work with co-authors Rossetto, Christian Solberg, and Cliodhna O’Connor. Their full paper appeared in the May 2013 issue of Earthquake Spectra.