The Global Earthquake Vulnerability Estimation System (GEVES): An approach for earthquake risk assessment for insurance applications

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-483

  Spence, Robin ^a   So, Emily ^a   Jenny, Sarah ^b   Castella, Hervé ^b   Ewald, Michael ^b   Booth, Edmund ^c  

^a CAMBRIDGE ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b PartnerRe   (Switzerland)

^c Edmund Booth Consulting Engineer   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Ground motion; Insurance; Loss estimation; Macroseismic intensity; Uncertainty; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; FINANCE; INDUSTRY; INSURANCE; MODEL BUILDINGS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

(MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; ADVANTAGES AND PITFALLS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; BUSINESS MEDIA; DAMAGE RATIOS; EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS; EARTHQUAKE LOSS ESTIMATION; EARTHQUAKE RISK ASSESSMENT; EARTHQUAKE RISKS; EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO; GROUND SHAKING; GROUND-SHAKING; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INPUT DATA; KEY PARAMETERS; LONG TIME; LOSS ESTIMATION; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SEISMIC REGIONS; SITE OF INTEREST (SI); SPECTRAL DISPLACEMENT; SPRINGER (CO);

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 47949124174     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-008-9072-7     Document Type: Article

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