WHE-PAGER PROJECT: A NEW INITIATIVE IN ESTIMATING GLOBAL BUILDING INVENTORY AND ITS SEISMIC VULNERABILITY

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquake’s Response (PAGER) Project and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE) are creating a global database of building stocks and their earthquake vulnerability. The WHE already represents a growing, community-developed public database of global housing and its detailed structural characteristics. It currently contains more than 135 reports on particular housing types in 40 countries. The WHE-PAGER effort extends the WHE in several ways: (1) by addressing non-residential construction; (2) by quantifying the prevalence of each building type in both rural and urban areas; (3) by addressing day and night occupancy patterns, (4) by adding quantitative vulnerability estimates from judgment or statistical observation; and (5) by analytically deriving alternative vulnerability estimates using in part laboratory testing.

[1]  Gail M. Atkinson,et al.  Earthquake Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Eastern North America , 2006 .

[2]  J. E. Dobson,et al.  LandScan: Locating People is What Matters , 2002 .

[3]  W. Silva,et al.  Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relationships for Subduction Zone Earthquakes , 1997 .

[4]  José Badal,et al.  Preliminary Quantitative Assessment of Earthquake Casualties and Damages , 2005 .

[5]  S. Cochran,et al.  Use of self-ratings to improve group estimates: Experimental evaluation of delphi procedures , 1970 .

[6]  A. Penna,et al.  The Italian Contribution to the USGS PAGER Project , 2008 .

[7]  P. S. Earle,et al.  FATALITY MODELS FOR THE U . S . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ’ S PROMPT ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL EARTHQUAKES FOR RESPONSE ( PAGER ) SYSTEM , 2008 .

[8]  W. B. Joyner,et al.  Equations for Estimating Horizontal Response Spectra and Peak Acceleration from Western North American Earthquakes: A Summary of Recent Work , 1997 .

[9]  G. Grünthal.  European macroseismic scale 1998 : EMS-98 , 1998 .

[10]  N. Dalkey,et al.  The Delphi Method, III: Use of Self-Ratings To Improve Group Estimates , 1969 .

[11]  D. Wald,et al.  Creating a Global Building Inventory for Earthquake Loss Assessment and Risk Management , 2008 .

[12]  Thomas H. Heaton,et al.  Real-Time Loss Estimation as an Emergency Response Decision Support System: The Early Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment Tool (EPEDAT) , 1997 .

[13]  D. Wald,et al.  Review Article Topographic Slope as a Proxy for Seismic Site Conditions and Amplification , 2007 .