A methodology for seismic loss estimation in urban regions based on ground-motion simulations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 710-725

  Ugurhan, Beliz ^a   Askan, Aysegul ^a   Erberik, Murat Altug ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STOCKS; DAMAGE RATIO; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAULT PLANES; FRAGILITY ANALYSIS; FRAGILITY CURVES; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; HEAVY DAMAGE; LOSS ESTIMATION; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC LOSS; SEISMIC LOSS ESTIMATION; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY; TWO-COMPONENT; URBAN REGIONS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY;

ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT PLANE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; URBAN REGION; VULNERABILITY;

TURKEY;

EID: 79953044028     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100159     Document Type: Article

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