Download or read book Regional Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis Through Geographic Information Systems written by Stephanie A. King and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis written by Pamela S. Showalter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and global po- tioning systems. Our focus is on urban areas, broadly de ned in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas that may not be considered “urban” in the conventional sense. The material presented here is also unabashedly applied – our goal is to provide GIT tools to those seeking more ef cient ways to respond to, recover from, mitigate, prevent, and/or model hazard and disaster events in urban settings. Therefore, this book was created not only with our colleagues in the academic world in mind, but also for hazards professionals and practitioners. We also believe graduate students will nd the material presented here of interest, as may upper division undergraduate students.

Download or read book Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis with Geographic Information Systems written by Anne Setian Kiremidjian and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geographic Information Research written by Massimo Craglia and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic Information Research is a broad discipline, and is being actively pursued world-wide. A group of researchers in both North America and Europe have come together as contributors to this volume as a way of combining their expertise. The emphasis is on matters of political, strategic and organizational importance, rather than on technology or systems, and covers the theory and social and political practice which goes hand-in-hand with GIS.

Download or read book Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk written by B.E. Tucker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban seismic safety is improved, particularly in developing countries, future earthquakes will have ever more disastrous social and economic consequences. In July 1992, an international meeting was organized with the purpose of examining one means ofimproving worldwide urban safety. Entitled "Uses ofEarthquake Damage Scenarios for Cities of the 21st Century," this meeting was held in conjunction with the Tenth World Conference ofEarthquake Engineering, in Madrid, Spain. An earthquake damage scenario (EDS) is adescription of the consequences to an urban area of a large, but expectable earthquake on the critical facilities of that area. In Californian and Japanese cities, EDSes have been used for several decades, mainly for the needs of emergency response officials. The Madrid meeting examined uses of this technique for other purposes and in other, less developed countries. As a result of this meeting, it appeared that EDSes bad significant potential to improve urban seismic safety worldwide.

Download or read book Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment written by Giuliano Panza and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues pertaining to urban risks are a pressing concern for those involved in disasters mitigation. Development of effective mitigation strategies requires sound seismic hazard information that is commonly derived through a seismic hazard assessment (SHA). The purpose of SHA is to provide a scientifically consistent estimate of seismic hazard for engineering design and other considerations. The time is ripe to move beyond the old paradigms of the traditional Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA). This two-part volume advocates advanced methods for SHA that utilize up to date earthquake science and basic scientific principles to derive the seismic hazard in terms of a ground motion or related quantity and its occurrence frequency at a site, as well as the associated uncertainty. It aims to: (1) identify the issues in the current SHAs, (2) facilitate the development of a scientifically consistent approach for SHA and (3) disseminate, both in scientific and in engineering practice societies, advanced reliable tools for independent hazard estimates, like NDSHA (neo-deterministic SHA), which incorporates physically based ground motion models. It provides a fresh approach to seismic hazard analysis. Part 2 provides advanced SHA case studies, concerning regional national and metropolitan estimates for different parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, North and South America. It is addressed to seismologists, engineers and stake-holders, and aims to contribute to bridging between modern interdisciplinary research and practitioners.

Download or read book Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis written by Pamela S. Showalter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and global po- tioning systems. Our focus is on urban areas, broadly de ned in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas that may not be considered “urban” in the conventional sense. The material presented here is also unabashedly applied – our goal is to provide GIT tools to those seeking more ef cient ways to respond to, recover from, mitigate, prevent, and/or model hazard and disaster events in urban settings. Therefore, this book was created not only with our colleagues in the academic world in mind, but also for hazards professionals and practitioners. We also believe graduate students will nd the material presented here of interest, as may upper division undergraduate students.

Download or read book Synopsis of Seismic Threats in the Western United States written by Douglas B. Bausch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Application of Geographic Information System GIS for the study of Tectonic Plates in Pakistan written by Adnan Baig and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Meteorology, Aeronomy, Climatology, grade: Excellent, , course: Masters, language: English, abstract: Traditional approaches provide only limited opportunities for general analysis of tectonic structure. However, Geographic Information System provides unique opportunities for solving a wide spectrum of problems, related to analyzing earthquake phenomena. GIS can also provide an effective platform for data assortment, organization, and research with multidirectional data sets. In addition, GIS can also provide an effective solution for integrating different layers of information. In this research an interactive, diversified seismological, geological, and geographical digital database has been developed for Pakistan. Using this GIS database, a better understanding of the tectonics and crustal structure of the region is possible. With the help of this database we have complied new maps of seismological parameters, depth to moho, Pn velocity and Pg velocity. The developed GIS database would help us in natural hazard evaluation, seismic risk assessment, and understanding of earthquake occurrences

Download or read book Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management written by Sisi Zlatanova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.

Download or read book Community Participation and Geographical Information Systems written by William J. Craig and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever considered how much effect information technology has on society throughout the world? Progress often places lower income and marginalized communities at a distinct disadvantage. Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems, however, offers a detailed look at numerous incidences around the world where communities have ac

Download or read book Earthquake Engineering written by P. Bisch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text details the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering. CD-ROM contains full text of the 650 papers in printed form. This would have been 6 volumes of 1000 pages each. Topics covered: are: Engineering seismology; Experimental aspects for soils, rocks and construction material; Computational aspects for materials, structures and soil-structure interaction; Civil engineering projects; Active and passive isolation; Industrial facilities, lifelines and equipment; Vulnerability, seismic risk and strengthening; Site effects and spatial variability of seismic motions; Reliability analyses and probabilistic aspects; Design criteria, codees and standards; Eurocode 8 and national applications; Seismic risk in the Mediterranean basin; Post earthquake investigations;

Download or read book Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems written by Christopher Legg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating recent advances made in remote sensing technology, this text draws attention to ways in which remote sensing may minimize the environmental impact of exploration and improve cost-effectiveness. Topics include image processing, geographic information systems, current and future sensing

Download or read book Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Seismic Zonation written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Probabilistic Regional Seismic Risk Assessment for Rational Decision Making written by Pablo Camilo Heresi Venegas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes in the last 100 years have resulted in $3 trillion U.S. dollars in economic losses worldwide. Even moderate-magnitude events, such as the Mw6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake and the Mw6.9 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, have caused widespread damage, significant economic losses, and tens of thousands of families displaced from their homes. In the last two decades, the performance-based earthquake engineering framework developed by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, also referred to as the PEER PBEE framework, has gained much attention from researchers and practitioners not only in the U.S. but also in most seismic-prone countries. This framework was focused on individual structures under seismic hazards. However, large earthquakes occurring close to large urban regions may strike and affect thousands or even millions of structures simultaneously, leading to large numbers of casualties and significant disruptions to the normal functionality of communities. Hence, the concept of "performance" in PBEE needs to be expanded from an individual to a regional scale, with broader definitions of stakeholders and performance metrics in order to evaluate the seismic risk of groups of structures that are spatially distributed within a region, referred to as regional seismic risk. The main goal of this dissertation is to propose improved regional seismic risk methodologies within a probabilistic framework that explicitly quantifies, incorporates, and propagates uncertainties at the different stages of the analysis, in order to provide improved information for decision makers. The main contributions of this dissertation are: • A mathematical formalization of a regional performance-based earthquake engineering (RPBEE) framework for seismic risk assessment of groups of structures and infrastructure spatially distributed within a region. • An improved model for the spatial correlation of ground motion intensity measures, which is based on 39 well-recorded earthquakes and is the first model that explicitly incorporates the event-to-event variability. • Recommendations of ground motion intensity measures to characterize the seismic hazard for regional seismic risk assessment of wood-frame single-family houses. • An investigation on the relative seismic performance of one- and two-story houses, leading to recommendations for future building classification systems for regional seismic risk assessment, where one- and two-story houses are separated into different classes with different seismic vulnerabilities. • Novel fragility curves for estimating the probability of damage to chimneys and severe damage to structural shear walls in wood-frame single-family houses which are particularly useful for improving current approaches to estimate the number of yellow- and red-tagged wood-frame single-family houses. • A model for explicitly incorporating the correlation between the damage in different structures conditioned on their ground motion intensities for regional seismic risk asessment, along with an investigation on the effect of this correlation on regional seismic risk metrics. • A probabilistic framework for evaluating and comparing alternative public policies for enhancing the seismic performance of structures in terms of regional seismic risk mitigation. • Evaluation of the inherent regional risk of collapse implicit with the probability of collapse of individual buildings that is currently specified as acceptable in U.S. seismic design provisions. • A simplified seismic design approach that explicitly considers the regional seismic risk in the seismic design criteria of structures, referred to as "regional-risk-targeted seismic design.".

Download or read book Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems written by Sergio Di Martino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2019, held in Wuhan, China, in November 2020. The 8 full papers presented together with 15 progress papers or short papers in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers cover topics that range from mobile GIS and Location-Based Services to Spatial Information Retrieval and Wireless Sensor Networks

Download or read book Coping with Natural Hazards written by Khadg Singh Valdiya and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of twenty one papers presented during the symposium on Coping with Natural Hazards at University of Pune on 5 and 6 October 2001. This very successful symposium, organised by the National Academy of Sciences, outlined the strategies our country should adopt to be prepared to face hazards like earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, cyclones, droughts and desertification. It contains papers by pre-eminent scientists and leading lights like Professors M G K Menon, P K Das, D R Sikka and R K Bhandari and many others. Each paper has been critically reviewed by atleast two experts in their respective fields.