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The GEM Vulnerability Consortium offers a draft analytical vulnerability guideline document for internal and community review. It is a simplified version of the PEER 2nd-generation performance-based earthquake engineering methodology, but one that treats building classes through analyses of 1, 3, or 7 representative index buildings in the class. It demonstrates the integration of structural and nonstructural repair costs.
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Download a summary report of second year activities (november 2011-2012), describing continued activities from year 1, but also the website that was development for data collaboration and much more. After reading, do leave your comments!
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Download here a summary report of first year activities, describing data collection, work on Shakemaps and database development. After reading, do comment here in Nexus for any question or remark.
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On March 1, 2013 GEM held a participatory workshop on the assessment of earthquake risk using an integrated approach as part of the GEM South Asia Expert Meeting and Technical Training in Kathmandu, Nepal. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce GEM’s tools and methods for measuring risk holistically, to have detailed discussions related to the technological needs within the South Asia region for measuring socio-economic vulnerability and resilience, and to better understand regionally specific drivers of seismic risk to be able to suggest pertinent factors for integrated risk assessments that account for both physical and social parameters.
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This report features a procedure for the OpenQuake software suite to offer an available vulnerability function for any acceptable set of attributes that the user specifies for a particular building category. It also provides general guidelines on how to submit the vulnerability or fragility functions to the GEM physical vulnerability database. We look forward to your feedback; do leave your comments immediately below.
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