Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
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Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 98
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Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Committee On Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 247
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Committee on Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology (National Research Council)
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Published: 1989
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ISBN-13: 9780309590242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Committee on Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology (National Research Council)
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Published: 1989
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ISBN-13: 9780309589758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvester Theodore Algermissen
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1989-02-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780309078184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emily So
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-16
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 3319268384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis manuscript sets out a process for estimating fatalities in collapsed buildings due to ground shaking in an earthquake. The aim of this research is to supplement current earthquake loss estimation with fatality rates (percentage of occupants killed) for use in models which are based on recent empirical information on deaths from earthquakes. This document specifically explores the lethality potential to occupants of collapsed structures. Whilst earthquake casualty modeling has admittedly suffered from a lack of post-earthquake collection of data and rigour in assessing these data, recent earthquakes such as 2008 Wenchuan (China) and 2011 Christchurch (New Zealand) have brought to light some important findings. Under the auspices of US Geological Survey’s PAGER, empirical fatality data related to collapses of buildings from significant earthquakes in the past 40 years have been thoroughly examined. Through detailed investigations of fatal building collapses and the volume reductions within these buildings, important clues related to the lethality potential of different failure mechanisms of global modern and older construction types were found. The gathered evidence forms the basis of the derivation of a set of fatality rates for use in loss models. The set of judgment-based rates are for 31 global building types. This significant advancement in casualty modeling, the resolutions and quality of available data, the important assumptions made, and the final derivation of fatality rates are discussed here. This document contributes to global efforts to develop a way of estimating probable earthquake fatalities very rapidly after an earthquake has taken place. The fatality rates proposed here can be incorporated directly into earthquake loss estimation models where fatalities are derived from collapses of different types of buildings.
Author: George W. Housner
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Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780756710163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA key question that must be addressed in earthquake hazard reduction is: How much loss might a city or region experience from future earthquakes? The destructiveness of an earthquake depends on its size, its proximity, and the state of preparation. When all 3 are adverse they combine to produce a great disaster. This set of guidelines for a recommended loss estimation methodology includes: basic method; considerations of uncertainty; user needs; ground-shaking hazard; bldg. damage and losses; collateral hazards; damage and losses to special facilities and urban systems; indirect losses; rapid post-earthquake loss estimates; conclusions and recommendations; and references.