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An Atlas of ShakeMaps and population exposure catalog for earthquake loss modeling
- Source :
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 7:701-718
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.
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Abstract
- We present an Atlas of ShakeMaps and a catalog of human population expo- sures to moderate-to-strong ground shaking (EXPO-CAT) for recent historical earthquakes (1973-2007). The common purpose of the Atlas and exposure catalog is to calibrate earth- quake loss models to be used in the US Geological Survey's Prompt Assessment of Global EarthquakesforResponse(PAGER).ThefullShakeMapAtlascurrentlycomprisesover5,600 earthquakes from January 1973 through December 2007, with almost 500 of these maps con- strained—tovaryingdegrees—byinstrumentalgroundmotions,macroseismicintensitydata, community internet intensity observations, and published earthquake rupture models. The catalog of human exposures is derived using current PAGER methodologies. Exposure to discrete levels of shaking intensity is obtained by correlating Atlas ShakeMaps with a global population database. Combining this population exposure dataset with historical earthquake lossdata,suchasPAGER-CAT,providesausefulresourceforcalibratinglossmethodologies against a systematically-derived set of ShakeMap hazard outputs. We illustrate two example uses for EXPO-CAT; (1) simple objective ranking of country vulnerability to earthquakes, and; (2) the influence of time-of-day on earthquake mortality. In general, we observe that countriesinsimilargeographicregionswithsimilarconstructionpracticestendtoclusterspa- tiallyintermsofrelativevulnerability.Wealsofindlittlequantitativeevidencetosuggestthat time-of-day is a significant factor in earthquake mortality. Moreover, earthquake mortality appears to be more systematically linked to the population exposed to severe ground shaking (Modified Mercalli Intensity VIII+). Finally, equipped with the full Atlas of ShakeMaps, we merge each of these maps and find the maximum estimated peak ground acceleration at any grid point in the world for the past 35years. We subsequently compare this "composite
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Peak ground acceleration
Atlas (topology)
Population
Mercalli intensity scale
Building and Construction
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Geophysics
Seismic hazard
Geological survey
Earthquake rupture
Population exposure
education
Geology
Seismology
Civil and Structural Engineering
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- ISSN :
- 15731456, 1570761X, and 19732007
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b4db92fb45e5a553578849b54fb4dd09