Population and building vulnerability assessment by possible worst-case tsunami scenarios in Salinas, Ecuador

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Vera San Martín ◽  
Gary Rodriguez Rosado ◽  
Patricia Arreaga Vargas ◽  
Leonardo Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Tsunami Scenarios

scholarly journals A revised (PTVA) model for assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunami damage

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1557-1565 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dall'Osso ◽  
M. Gonella ◽  
G. Gabbianelli ◽  
G. Withycombe ◽  
D. Dominey-Howes
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Tsunami Damage ◽  
Vulnerability Of Buildings ◽  
Tsunami Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Sydney Australia

Abstract. The Papathoma Tsunami Vulnerability Assessment (PTVA) Model (Papathoma, 2003) was developed in the absence of robust, well-constructed and validated building fragility models for assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunami. It has proven to be a useful tool for providing assessments of building vulnerability. We present an enhanced version (PTVA-3) of the model that takes account of new understanding of the factors that influence building vulnerability and significantly, introduce the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for weighting the various attributes in order to limit concerns about subjective ranking of attributes in the original model. We successfully test PTVA-3 using building data from Maroubra, Sydney, Australia.

scholarly journals Assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunami in Sydney

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2015-2026 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dall'Osso ◽  
M. Gonella ◽  
G. Gabbianelli ◽  
G. Withycombe ◽  
D. Dominey-Howes
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Vulnerability Of Buildings ◽  
Relative Vulnerability

Abstract. Australia is vulnerable to the impacts of tsunamis and exposure along the SE coast of New South Wales is especially high. Significantly, this is the same area reported to have been affected by repeated large magnitude tsunamis during the Holocene. Efforts are under way to complete probabilistic risk assessments for the region but local government planners and emergency risk managers need information now about building vulnerability in order to develop appropriate risk management strategies. We use the newly revised PTVA-3 Model (Dall'Osso et al., 2009) to assess the relative vulnerability of buildings to damage from a "worst case tsunami" defined by our latest understanding of regional risk – something never before undertaken in Australia. We present selected results from an investigation of building vulnerability within the local government area of Manly – an iconic coastal area of Sydney. We show that a significant proportion of buildings (in particular, residential structures) are classified as having "High" and "Very High" Relative Vulnerability Index scores. Furthermore, other important buildings (e.g., schools, nursing homes and transport structures) are also vulnerable to damage. Our results have serious implications for immediate emergency risk management, longer-term land-use zoning and development, and building design and construction standards. Based on the work undertaken here, we recommend further detailed assessment of the vulnerability of coastal buildings in at risk areas, development of appropriate risk management strategies and a detailed program of community engagement to increase overall resilience.

Possible worst-case tsunami scenarios around the Marmara Sea from combined earthquake and landslide sources

2016 ◽  
pp. 3823-3846
Author(s):  
Panon Latcharote ◽  
Anawat Suppasri ◽  
Fumihiko Imamura ◽  
Betul Aytore ◽  
Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner
Keyword(s):  
Marmara Sea ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Tsunami Scenarios

Possible worst-case tsunami scenarios around the Marmara Sea from combined earthquake and landslide sources

2016 ◽  
Vol 173 (12) ◽  
pp. 3823-3846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panon Latcharote ◽  
Anawat Suppasri ◽  
Fumihiko Imamura ◽  
Betul Aytore ◽  
Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner
Keyword(s):  
Marmara Sea ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Tsunami Scenarios

scholarly journals Building vulnerability to hydro-geomorphic hazards: Estimating damage probability from qualitative vulnerability assessment using logistic regression

2016 ◽  
Vol 541 ◽  
pp. 563-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Ettinger ◽  
Loïc Mounaud ◽  
Christina Magill ◽  
Anne-Françoise Yao-Lafourcade ◽  
Jean-Claude Thouret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Damage Probability

scholarly journals Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings against Earthquake Case Study: Qadghoon Neighborhood, Borujerd, Iran

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-322
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
Single Scale ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Gis Software ◽  
Hierarchy Process

INTRODUCTION: The buildings, as the main and most abundant elements in cities, have great importance in two aspects of assessing and mitigating the vulnerability at disaster incidence. On the other hand, the emphasis of post disaster reconstruction engineers on the single-scale building has compounded the importance of building in terms of planning to reduce the damages of disaster incidence. METHODS: This quantitative-descriptive study was conducted documentary studies and extraction of priority indicators determining the degree of vulnerability. This research aimed to assess the vulnerability of Qadghoon buildings, one of the historical neighborhoods of Borujerd, Lorestan Province, Iran, which was damaged and reconstructed after the 2007 earthquake, for more than a decade. FINDINGS: The data obtained from the field study of this neighborhood were analyzed after entering into GIS software and weighted by Analytic Hierarchy Process-Delphi. The provided maps were evaluated and the vulnerability score obtained from indicators was weighted by the above method. Finally, the score of vulnerabilities in neighborhoods in the range of 0-5 Likert scale was calculated at 3.5208, which indicated a moderate increase in vulnerability. CONCLUSION: After the examination of actions taken in the post-earthquake reconstruction process, reduction of vulnerability evaluation was low. This result indicated the failure of operators to reduce the vulnerability on a scale of buildings, despite the large opportunities and resources. In addition to lessons from the present study, some suggestions were provided to improve the process of reconstruction after possible disasters in the future. Keywords: Borujerd; Earthquake; Qadghoon Neighborhood; Single-scale of Building; Vulnerability Assessment.

scholarly journals An Indicator-Based Approach for Micro-Scale Assessment of Physical Flood Vulnerability of Individual Buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Ismaila Usman Kaoje ◽  
Muhammad Zulkarnain Abdul Rahman ◽  
Tze Huey Tam ◽  
Mohd Radhie Mohd Salleh ◽  
Nurul Hazrina Binti Idris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Vulnerability Of Buildings ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization

The current trends of floods event in many countries are alarming. Hence, managing flood and the associated risk are crucial in order to reduce the loss and to be well prepared for the combined impact of urbanization and climate changes. The best approach to manage flood activities is a risk-based approach, where the vulnerability of elements at risk is reduced to a minimum. There is a significant number of studies that use an indicator-based approach for flood vulnerability assessment with focus on the macro-scale. However, this paper assesses physical flood vulnerability of buildings at micro-scale using an indicator-based method in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. The region is one of the most flood affected regions in Malaysia. Micro-scale vulnerability assessment considers damages for individual buildings at risk, rather than in aggraded manner. In this study, the methodology adopted involve the use of 1D-2D SOBEK flood modelling, the selection and weightage of indicators, development of spatial based building index and, production of building vulnerability maps. The findings demonstrate the physical pattern of flood vulnerability of buildings at a micro-scale. The approach can assist in flood management planning and risk mitigation at a local scale

scholarly journals Tsunami hazard assessment in the coastal area of Rabat and Salé, Morocco

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2181-2191 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Renou ◽  
O. Lesne ◽  
A. Mangin ◽  
F. Rouffi ◽  
A. Atillah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Companion Paper ◽  
Tsunami Hazard ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Damage Maps ◽  
Moroccan Coast

Abstract. In the framework of the three-year SCHEMA European project (www.schemaproject.org), we present a generic methodology developed to produce tsunami building vulnerability and impact maps. We apply this methodology to the Moroccan coast. This study focuses on the Bouregreg Valley which is at the junction between Rabat (administrative capital), and Salé. Both present large populations and new infrastructure development. Using a combination of numerical modelling, field surveys, Earth Observation and GIS data, the risk has been evaluated for this vulnerable area. Two tsunami scenarios were studied to estimate a realistic range of hazards on this coast: a worst-case scenario based on the historical Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and a moderate scenario based on the Horseshoe earthquake of 28 February 1969. For each scenario, numerical models allowed the production of tsunami hazard maps (maximum inundation extent and maximum inundation depths). Moreover, the modelling results of these two scenarios were compared with the historical data available. A companion paper to this article (Atillah et al., 2011) presents the following steps of the methodology, namely the elaboration of building damage maps by crossing layers of building vulnerability and the so-inferred inundation depths.

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Base Modeling

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Tesfamariam ◽  
Murat Saatcioglu
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Fuzzy Rule ◽  
Rule Base ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Buildings ◽  
Building Vulnerability ◽  
Concrete Buildings ◽  
Fuzzy Rule Base

A reliable building vulnerability assessment is required for developing a risk-based assessment and retrofit prioritization. Tesfamariam and Saatcioglu (2008) proposed a simple building vulnerability module where the building performance modifiers are in congruence with FEMA 154. This paper is an extension of the building vulnerability assessment that include detailed performance modifier in congruence with FEMA 310 that is represented in a heuristic based hierarchical structure. Some of the input parameters are obtained through a walk down survey and are subject to vagueness uncertainty that is modelled through fuzzy set theory. A knowledge base fuzzy rule base modeling is developed and illustrated for reinforced concrete buildings damaged in the 1 May 2003 Bingöl, Turkey earthquake.

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