SEISMOCARE: An efficient GIS tool for scenario-type investigations of seismic risk of existing cities

Anagnostopoulos, Stavros A.; Providakis, C. P.; Salvaneschi, Paolo; Athanasopoulos, George; Bonacina, G.

doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.06.011

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“…In Greece, Seismocare, a GIS scenario-based system was recently developed for studying the regional damage and loss estimation due to earthquakes (Anagnostopoulos et al 2008). Similarly, RISK-UE project dealt with the seismic risk of the city of Thessaloniki (and six more large European cities) by taking into consideration deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard scenarios together with the vulnerability of the elements at risk (Pitilakis et al 2006).…”

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Earthquake vulnerability and seismic risk assessment of urban areas in high seismic regions: application to Chania City, Crete Island, Greece

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The earthquake vulnerability and the seismic risk assessment for the urban center of Chania in the island of Crete is approached through the development of a GISbased application that takes into consideration the structural and geological domain of the region. Considering a localized model, the various structural and geomorphologic attributes of the region were assigned specific weights of significance that allowed the creation of a modular application that was tested for the city of Chania, and it was verified based on the recent seismic activity of the area. The proposed risk map and model can become a significant tool for confronting crises resulting from future earthquake incidences.

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Earthquake vulnerability and seismic risk assessment of urban areas in high seismic regions: application to Chania City, Crete Island, Greece

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“…Similar studies have been performed for Central America by Yong et al [11], for Seattle area by MacRae et al [12], for Chania-Greece by Anagnostopoulos et al [13] (Figure 9) and for an urban zone of Barcelona by Barbat et al [14]. This last work is based on the Italian vulnerability index and by the Monte Carlo method making an evaluation of damage probability matrices, fragility curves and vulnerability functions.…”

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“…), which play a big role on the Building vulnerabilities of the investigated urban area of ChaniaGreece, after Anagnostopoulos et al [13].…”

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The road map for the seismic geotechnical vulnerability of the physical environment

Grasso

Maugeri

2009

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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The increasing importance attributed to microzonation derives from the spatial variability of ground motion due to particular local conditions, from landslides and ground liquefaction noticed during recent earthquakes and from the awareness that many towns run a high risk because of the geotechnical characteristics of the foundations of structures. The Mediterranean area is characterised by a medium-high level of seismic risk, so earthquakes are a major cause of the destruction of monuments, residential and industrial buildings. Among the effects on the stability of the physical environment, landslides and liquefaction represent the most significant factors of vulnerability of the physical environment itself. Landslides are particularly relevant because they can deeply modify the physical environment and consequently they represent an aggravation factor for the vulnerability of buildings resting on a potentially landsliding slope. Microzonation of slope stability is then preliminary to the evaluation of the vulnerability of buildings. Vulnerability of the physical environment, related to the presence of cavities and to seismic induced landslides and liquefaction, has been analysed with special reference to the new modelling of such phenomena and to the application of the models to given areas. This paper deals with the vulnerability of the physical environment (landslides, liquefaction etc.), while the road map continues with the analysis of the vulnerability of monuments and buildings, with the aim of the estimation of the seismic resistance required to defend against seismic action given by the scenario earthquakes.

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“…Anagnostopoulos et al [23] have presented the SEISMOCARE GIS tool, aiming to provide a user friendly, menudriven portable system with built-in as well as user defined functions and assumptions. Eleftheriadou et al [24] have carried out a large scale project in order to compare the DPM based damage estimates with available data from repair/strengthening or replacement cost in the extended urban region of Athens, struck by the 1999 earthquake.…”

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Inventory of the building stock in the city of Serres (Greece) for seismic vulnerability assessment and loss estimation

Panagopoulos¹,

Kirtas²,

Mimidis³

et al. 2015

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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It is well known that inventory collection is one of the most demanding tasks for developing a risk scenario, unless extensive information is already available. Existing data from the City Planning Office archives of the Municipality have been utilized in combination with targeted in-situ inspections of selected building blocks, in order to provide an adequate recording of a representative sample of the building stock in the city of Serres (northern Greece) that will later be used for the vulnerability assessment and the loss estimation for selected seismic scenarios within the framework of the research program SeiVAS. More than 2000 buildings have been inspected, accounting for about 20% of the building stock in the city. Recorded data include general information of the buildings (i.e. age, height, use) as well as structural aspects. All data gathered were processed in an in-house developed software application and visualized in space using the ArcGIS platform. An initial grading is given to each building adopting the (Greek) Earthquake Planning and Protecting Organization procedure and the background to be used in the final stages of the research program, utilizing appropriate fragility curves for

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SEISMOCARE: An efficient GIS tool for scenario-type investigations of seismic risk of existing cities

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

Earthquake vulnerability and seismic risk assessment of urban areas in high seismic regions: application to Chania City, Crete Island, Greece

Earthquake vulnerability and seismic risk assessment of urban areas in high seismic regions: application to Chania City, Crete Island, Greece

The road map for the seismic geotechnical vulnerability of the physical environment

Inventory of the building stock in the city of Serres (Greece) for seismic vulnerability assessment and loss estimation

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