Doctoral student

Benazir Ioana Orihuela Gonzales
Swiss Seismological Service (SED)
ETH Zürich
Benazir Ioana Orihuela Gonzales
NO E 57
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092 Zürich

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My PhD research centers on earthquake risk with a focus on Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) within the ATTAC project in Central America. I am analysing the potential benefits of EEW in reducing the seismic risk by considering the performance of the system and human behaviour during earthquakes.

  • BSc in Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Peru)
  • MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster, University College London (UK)

Scholarships

  • Chevening Scholarship. Foreign and Commonwealth Office of United Kingdom.
  • Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students

Cremen G., Velazquez O., Orihuela B., Galasso C. Predicting approximate seismic responses in multistory buildings from real-time earthquake source information for earthquake early warn-ing applications. Bull Earthquake Eng 19, 4865–4885 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-021-01088-y 

Orihuela B., Dallo I., Clinton J., Strauch W., Protti M., Yani R., Marroquín G., Sanchez J., Vega F., Marti M., Massin F., Böse M., Wiemer S. Earthquake early warning in Central America: The societal perspective, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 97,2023,103982,ISSN 2212-4209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103982