Follow-up of the post-seismic reconstruction in Le Teil from the November 11th 2019 seismic event to now: Insights and zoom over building rehabilitation

This work focuses on field monitoring of certain resilience parameters, such as the time for reconstruction and repairs from the effects of the 2019 earthquake that strongly affected the municipality of Le Teil, Rhone Valley, France. Follows the basis of emergency post-earthquake building safety inspections done by the French Association for Earthquake Engineering (AFPS), the reconstruction of buildings in the municipality of Le Teil is studied at different scales: building, infra-communal and communal. Interpreting damage observations and modelling reconstruction requires multiple sources of information, hence the importance of having data at these three different scales.

This study includes a detailed classification of the buildings, estimations for their vulnerability and predictive risk scenario calculations depending on assumptions about the level of structural reinforcement. These elements raise important questions about the reconstruction, particularly from the point of view of design standards. The authors also highlight the importance of physical vulnerability and recovery capacities, two main components of the reconstruction process. This work constitutes a pioneering effort in terms of collecting records and observations of post-earthquake reconstruction in France, over a multi-year timespan.