Development of Seismic Risk Scenarios Based on a Hybrid Method of Vulnerability Assessment

A hybrid methodology of vulnerability analysis is presented, involving elements from both empirical and theoretical methods. A model for correlating analytically calculated structural damage indices to loss (in monetary terms) is also proposed and calibrated against available statistical data. Probability damage matrices derived using this methodology are incorporated into a cost-benefit model tailored to the problem of estimating the feasibility of seismically rehabilitating the existing stock of reinforced concrete buildings in Thessaloniki, Greece. Losses calculated using the suggested procedure are found to be in good agreement with losses incurred during the 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake. The results of the present study also indicate that benefit/cost ratios for reinforced concrete buildings are quite low. Hence, it appears that a pre-earthquake strengthening programme is not economically justifiable.     

Comparative Seismic Risk Studies for German Earthquake Regions on the Basis of the European Macroseismic Scale EMS-98

Within the framework of recent research projects, basic tools for GIS-based seismic risk assessment technologies were developed and applied to the building stock and regional particularities of German earthquake regions. Two study areas are investigated, being comparable by the level of seismic hazard and the hazard-consistent scenario events (related to mean return periods of 475, 2475 and 10000 years). Significant differences exist with respect to the number of inhabitants, the grade and extent of urbanisation, the quality and quantity of building inventory: the case study of Schmölln in Eastern Thuringia seems to be representative for the majority of smaller towns in Germany, the case study of Cologne (Köln) stands for larger cities. Due to the similarities of hazard and scenario intensities, the considerable differences do not only require proper decisions concerning the appropriate methods and acceptable efforts, they enable conclusions about future research strategies and needs for disaster reduction management. Not least important, results can sharpen the focus of public interest. Seismic risk maps are prepared for different scenario intensities recognising the scatter and uncertainties of site-dependent ground motion and also of the applied vulnerability functions. The paper illustrates the impact of model assumptions and the step-wise refinements of input variables like site conditions, building stock or vulnerability functions on the distribution of expected building damage within the study areas. Furthermore, and in contrast to common research strategies, results support the conclusion that in the case of stronger earthquakes the damage will be of higher concentration within smaller cities like Schmölln due to the site-amplification potential and/or the increased vulnerability of the building stock. The extent of damage will be pronounced by the large number of masonry buildings for which lower vulnerability classes have to be assigned. Due to the effect of deep sedimentary layers and the composition of building types, the urban centre of Cologne will be less affected by an earthquake of comparable intensity.     

绥中某电力设备站场区地震危险性分析

绥中某电力设备站是东北地区较重要的电力设施,场址位于长期隆起的绥中剥蚀丘陵上。通过现场实地勘察,获得区域、近区域地震活动、地质构造、地球物理场等资料,并对工程场址进行了地震危险性分析。按工程建筑物抗震设计规范要求,分别给出了50年63%、10%和2%超越概率水平的基岩峰值加速度及反应谱,计算出地震动参数,为该电力设备站建设提供了抗震设计依据。     

Seismic Hazard for Selected Sites in Greece: A Bayesian Estimate of Seismic Peak Ground Acceleration

A procedure for estimating maximum values of seismic peak ground accelerationat the examined site and quantiles of its probabilistic distribution in a future timeinterval of a given length is considered. The input information for the method areseismic catalog and regression relation between peak seismic acceleration at a givenpoint and magnitude and distance from the site to epicenter (seismic attenuation law).The method is based on Bayesian approach, which simply accounts for influenceof uncertainties of seismic acceleration values. The main assumptions for the method are Poissonian character of seismic events flow and distribution law of Gutenberg-Richter's type. The method is applied to seismic hazard estimation in six selected sitesin Greece.     

地震危险性、地震危害性和地震易损性

做好城市防震减灾工作 ,关键是对未来可能遭遇地震灾害定量化预测。本文论述地震灾害定量化的三要素 :地震危险性 ,地震危害性和地震易损性 ,它们概念完全不同 ,且很容易混淆 ,但又存在因与果的关系。本文还简要介绍厦门市地震科技工作者开展的“闽南地区综合防震减灾示范工程”。     

Seismic vulnerability assessment of earthquake-prone mega-city Shillong,India using geophysical mapping and remote sensing

ABSTRACT

The concept of seismic vulnerability is a yard-stick of damage estimation from a probable earthquake considering physical cum social dimension and enables a basis for decision-makers to develop preparedness and mitigation strategies. We aim at vulnerability assessment of the typical urban system of capital city Shillong situated on hilly terrain. High-resolution satellite imagery of Shillong facilitates analysis of building footprints, communication network, and open ground. Different building typologies are identified taking into account the building’s structural configuration assessed through a rapid visual survey of more than 15% of total residential households. Slope map demarcates the landslide-prone area through discrete elevation modelling. A methodology incorporating several parameters e.g. building typology, slope angle, shear wave velocity characteristics, geomorphology, and the number of occupants in correlation with a physical measurement of vulnerability is presented and is applied to estimate the dimension of vulnerability. Additionally, MASW survey indicates lithology up to 30?m deep along with the existence of stiff soil and rocks at different depths whereas resonant frequency is identified to be in the range of 6–8?Hz through H/V ratio. Integrating all, it is observed that more than 60% of Shillong city falls under moderate to higher vulnerability and the rest is less vulnerable.     

Seismic Risk Assessment for the Territory of Armenia and Strategy of its Mitigation

The original methods of seismic risk assessment based on the main factors, defining the high level of seismic risk in Armenia, are used in this paper. Based on the analysis carried out, an assessment is made about the fact, that the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, is the most risk exposed area. A strategy for seismic risk reduction, derived from local peculiarities and the level of seismic risk, is presented. Improving the resisting of existing buildings and constructions to seismic damage, based on the grounds of new technologies elaborated by NSSP RA, is emphasised in this strategy.     

喀斯特生态环境风险评价——以贵州省为例

区域生态环境风险评价具有尺度大、风险源与风险受体多、空间异质性强等特点,开展区域生态环境风险研究是识别生态环境风险水平、制定防范应对策略的重要理论支撑。文章以贵州省为例,参考相对风险模型为风险评价原则,基于自然灾害成因,综合考虑区域自然及经济状况,建立贵州省喀斯特生态环境风险评价框架与指标体系,运用层次分析法及系统聚类分析法,对各评价单元的危险性、暴露性、脆弱性、防灾减灾能力进行分析,并划分了区域风险程度等级。结果表明:贵州省喀斯特生态环境风险分布与生态环境本底和社会经济发展水平相关性明显,高风险区主要分布在生态环境脆弱的高原山地、高原峡谷地区以及综合发展水平较高的贵阳中心城区,低风险区主要分布在喀斯特分布面积少、生态本底好、自然灾害较少的黔东南及黔西北地区。      

Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for Tulbagh,South Africa: Part II – Assessment of Seismic Risk

This is the second part of our study on the assessment of seismic hazard and seismic risk for Tulbagh, the settlement, located about 90 km N-E from Cape Town, where the strongest and most damaging earthquake known in the existing earthquake history of South Africa took place. This part of our study, which can be read independently from Part I, concentrates on the probabilistic seismic risk analysis (PSRA) forTulbagh. The work begins with an introduction and a historical perspective on the estimation of seismic damage to buildings. The methodology for the estimation of expected damage from a probabilistic point of view is then presented. The work closes with an application of the described methodology to a site in the vicinity of Tulbagh.     

四川康定城市地震地质及地质灾害风险评价

四川康定处于鲜水河、龙门山及安宁河三条地震带的"Y"字形交汇部位,境内地震活动频繁,地震基本烈度达IX度。康定城区位于鲜水河断裂南东段的雅拉河-康定断裂,城区几乎处于康定断裂的次级断层围限之中,断裂发育,岩体破碎,在降雨、地震和人类经济活动的影响下,地质灾害十分发育。康定城发育地质灾害25处,其中滑坡14处,崩塌3处,泥石流5处,不稳定斜坡3处。地质灾害多沿城区河流两岸斜坡和支沟分布,对城区居民的生命财产安全构成巨大的威胁,一旦发生强烈地震及其产生的次生地质灾害,将对康定城市带来灾难性的毁坏。近年来随着城镇化建设速度的加快,城市规模不断扩大,城市容量空前扩张,加之活动断裂活动性增加,城市安全风险增大,正确合理规划城市规模,科学地开展城市环境地质调查,制定有效的减灾防灾预案是确保城市安全的重要方法。     

Vulnerability,Partnerships and the Pursuit of Survival: Urban Livelihoods and Apprenticeship Contracts in a West African City

This paper analyses local level apprenticeship contracts and networks to highlight informal urban livelihoods within the context of socio-economic vulnerability and wider contemporary changes taking place in Koforidua, Ghana. It does so by specifically examining the complex entanglements of interpersonal relationships that characterize apprenticeship contracts within which home-based entrepreneurs and artisans in Koforidua engage in to sustain both current livelihoods, as well as to shore themselves against socio-economic vulnerability triggered in part by adjustment. As a result of the changing geography of the city, network entanglements, comprising resilient ties and egalitarian relations, have become vital to urban livelihoods in this community. However, apprenticeship contracts and the networks they engender can be a double-edged sword. For instance, demands of reciprocity or support from co-network members, neighbours and family, can be so taxing that some individuals opt out of the network. This tension notwithstanding, this paper contends that apprenticeship contracts and the network spaces they create have created a new social cohesion and community that transcend the traditionally known spaces of social support, i.e. ethnic ties, family ties or even institutional support.     

从地震波各向异性到各向异性地震学: 地震波各向异性研究综述

介绍了地震波各向异性研究的发展历史和进展,着重叙述在地球各个圈层特别是地壳和上地幔中的地震波各向异性,及其在地球动力学和地震监测中的应用。地震波各向异性为动力地球作用过程的研究提供了一种崭新的手段,它的科学潜力是巨大的、空前的,正逐步形成一个地震学的重要分支——各向异性地震学。     

滑坡风险评估的难点和进展

近年来,国内外滑坡研究日益重视滑坡风险评估和管理技术方法的研究,但滑坡风险评估依然是存在很多问题和难点,尤其是在中等—大比例尺区域滑坡风险定量评估方面,主要表现在滑坡编录数据库建设、滑坡影响因素的识别和建模、滑坡时间、空间预测的不确定性,滑坡诱发因素动态变化的定量刻画,承灾体识别和易损性定量评价等方面。在阐述滑坡风险评估流程的基础上,围绕滑坡风险评估与制图中滑坡编录和基础数据获取与更新,危险性分析中的滑坡空间、时间概率和滑坡特征预测、损失评估中的易损性分析与定量和承灾体定量化制图等技术方法中的难点和存在的问题,概述针对这些问题所取得的研究进展,并指出了滑坡风险研究的技术发展趋势。     

上海地面沉降风险评价及防治管理区建设研究

在阐述地面沉降风险基本内涵及特征基础上,以上海市为例,详细介绍了地面沉降风险评价的工作流程、评价指标及评价方法。以地面沉降风险评价结果为基础,结合上海目前地面沉降防治工作体系,将地面沉降风险管理与地面沉降防治管理主体相结合,提出了＂十二五＂期间上海地面沉降风险管理区建设方案。     

区域滑坡灾害风险评估——以长江三峡库区秭归县为例

以滑坡灾害突出的三峡库区秭归县为研究区。在深入分析滑坡孕灾环境、诱发因素、滑坡编录和承灾体信息的基础上,利用Logistic回归模型和统计分析方法相结合进行了滑坡危险性评价。通过滑坡灾害致灾强度与承灾体抗灾能力分析了人口、建筑物、生命线工程和土地资源的易损性。采用成本价值核算法对各类承灾体进行了价值核算,最后通过风险模型预测了研究区内未来10年滑坡灾害的生命与经济风险。生命和经济高风险区分别占整个研究区面积的1.11%和2.71%,主要分布在集镇和学校、企事业单位等人口密集区以及交通建设用地等经济价值大的地区;中风险区分别占13.21%和20.66%,主要分布于农村居民生活居住和耕地活动区;低风险区分别占85.68%和76.63%,则分布在经过地质灾害治理和人类活动较为稀少的未利用地及林地等区域。通过实地调查分析与对比验证,发现预测结果与实际灾情较吻合。研究表明,集镇和学校、企事业单位等人口集中区和交通建设用地区是今后减灾防灾部署工作的重中之重。     

A Step Towards Evaluation of the Seismic Response Reduction Factor in Multistorey Reinforced Concrete Frames

A seismic nonlinear time-history analysis was made for four-, six-, and eight-storey reinforced concrete buildings. These buildings were made as three-dimensional space frame structures with shear walls in both orthogonal directions. They have five bays with 4.8 m spacing each in the horizontal direction, and three bays with 4.2 m spacing each in the transversal direction. The frames were designed according to the Jordanian Seismic Code of practice for Seismic Zones 4, 3, 2, and 1 as proposed for Jordan by several authors. Time-history analysis was made using the El Centro (N-S) earthquake record of May 1940 as an actual earthquake excitation. The response reduction factor (R) that primarily consists of two factors that are the ductility reduction (Rµ) and the overstrength (), is obtained. It has been seen that the seismic zoning has a slight effect on the ductility reduction factor for different buildings, since it ranges from Zone 4 to Zone 1 as 2.37 to 2.52, 1.72 to 1.78, and 1.14 to 1.18 for four-, six-, and eight-storey buildings, respectively. Moreover, it is observed that, for different buildings and different seismic zones, the ductility reduction factor (Rµ) is slightly different from the system ductility factor (µ) especially for higher values of µ (i.e., Rµ µ). The response reduction factor, called overstrength (), was evaluated. The overstrength factor was found to vary with seismic zones (Z) , number of stories, and design gravity loads. However, the dependency on seismic zones was the strongest. The average overstrength of these buildings in Zones 4 and 1 was 2.61 and 6.94, respectively. The overstrength increased as the number of storeys decreased: overstrength of a four-storey building was higher than an eight-storey building by 36% in Zone 4, and 39% in Zone 1. Furthermore, buildings of the three heights had an average overstrength 165.9% higher in Zone 1 than in Zone 4. These observations have a significant implications for the seismic design codes which currently do not take into account the variation of the response reduction factor, R (i.e., ductility reduction factor times overstrength).     

天津地区岩土工程勘察中地震效应重点问题分析

场地和地基的地震效应评价是岩土工程勘察的一项重要任务。结合天津地区工程地质条件和岩土工程勘察现状,对场地和地基的地震效应评价所涉及的抗震设防烈度的确定、场地类别的划分、抗震地段的划分、液化判别、软土震陷、场地稳定性和适宜性评价等重点问题进行了探讨。     

模糊综合评判在临沂城区岩溶塌陷危险性评价中的应用

岩溶塌陷是山东省临沂市区最重要的地质灾害类型,该文首次采用基于层次分析的模糊综合评判法对岩溶塌陷进行了危险性现状评价,综合得出了危险性评价分级图,为当地岩溶塌陷防治工作提供了基础数据,也为同类地质灾害预防提供了借鉴模式。     

东南沿海台风暴雨型单体斜坡灾害风险评价——以泰顺仕阳北坡为例

在东南沿海地区每年汛期由台风暴雨诱发的坡积层滑坡灾害事故众多,给当地人民生命财产安全造成巨大威胁。斜坡单体风险评价是地质灾害治理与防控的重点、难点。在野外调查、工程地质钻探及岩土体力学测试的基础上,以仕阳镇仕阳北坡为例,结合气象资料分析了不同降雨条件下斜坡的稳定性;采用蒙特卡洛方法计算了斜坡安全系数的统计特性;基于斜坡破坏概率研究了承灾体的易损性,并定量计算了不同降雨条件下建筑物及人员的风险值。结果表明：随着降雨强度的增加,滑坡发生概率随之增加,其风险值也逐渐增加,特大暴雨工况风险最大,其人员风险为94人/年,经济风险为1.41亿元/年。研究结果对东南沿海地区该类滑坡的防治工程有重要的参考意义,可为该类滑坡的防灾减灾决策提供建议。