Abstract. Regional seismic risk assessment is paramount in
earthquake-prone areas, for instance, to define and implement prioritisation
schemes for earthquake risk reduction. As part of the Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience (INSPIRE), this paper
proposes an ad hoc rapid-visual-survey form, allowing one to (1) calculate the
newly proposed INSPIRE seismic risk prioritisation index, which is an
empirical proxy for the relative seismic risk of reinforced concrete (RC)
buildings within a given building portfolio; (2) calculate the Papathoma
Tsunami Vulnerability Assessment (PTVA) index, in any of its variations; (3) define one or more archetype buildings representative of the analysed
portfolio; (4) derive detailed numerical models of the archetype buildings,
provided that the simulated design is used to cross-check the model assumptions.
The proposed INSPIRE index combines a baseline score, calibrated based on
fragility curves, and a performance modifier, calibrated through the
analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to minimise subjectivity. An attempt to
define a multi-hazard prioritisation scheme is proposed, combining the
INSPIRE and PTVA indices. Such a multi-level framework is implemented for 85
RC school buildings in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, the most affected city by
the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake–tsunami sequence. As part of the proposed
framework, two archetype buildings representative of the entire portfolio
are defined based on the collected data. Their seismic performance is
analysed by means of non-linear static analyses, using both the analytical
simple lateral mechanism analysis (SLaMA) method and numerical finite-element pushover analyses to investigate the expected plastic mechanisms and
derive displacement/drift thresholds to define appropriate damage states.
Finally, non-linear dynamic analyses are performed to derive fragility
curves for the archetype buildings. This paper demonstrates the
effectiveness of the INSPIRE data collection form and proposed index in
providing a rational method to derive seismic risk prioritisation schemes
and in allowing the definition of archetype buildings for more detailed
evaluations/analyses.
The city of Banda Aceh stands on Holocene fluvial basin sediment, surrounded by the Aceh and Seulimeum fault segments where large magnitude earthquakes can occur at any time. Such earthquakes could cause extensive physical infrastructure damages, injuries, and economic loss. This research aims to produce several earthquake scenarios, to determine the damage ratio of the buildings and its distribution in these different scenarios and to estimate the number of potential casualties and economic loss. Data analysis in this research includes modelling an earthquake by applying a ground motion model for shallow crustal earthquakes to yield an intensity map after the correction for site effects. The damage ratios for different types of buildings were calculated using the fragility curves of buildings that were developed by other researchers. Building occupants at different times, building damage ratios, and injury ratios were used to determine the number of injured residents in the earthquake scenario. The results show that Banda Aceh could be potentially experience earthquake ground motion within the intensity range from MMI VII to IX due to earthquakes of Mw 6.5 to Mw 7.0. The Mw 7.0 earthquake on the Aceh segment is the worst case scenario, causing building damage throughout Banda Aceh with casualty rates of 3.5-20% of the population in buildings in general if it happened during daytime, with economic loss about 3320 million USD. Mitigation and preparedness programs for the Banda Aceh community are therefore very important in order to reduce the potential level of damage, personal injury, and economic loss due to future earthquakes.
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