The Global Earthquake Model Physical Vulnerability Database

Physical Vulnerability Assessment of the Hashtgerd New Town against a Probable Earthquake

Aims & Backgrounds: The occurrence of earthquakes in urban areas, have destructive effects, and the inhabitants are increasingly suffering from their harmful impacts. It appears that preparing proactive planning before the disaster occurrence, may reduce damages, casualties and financial losses. This paper aims to identify the vulnerability of the physical fabric of Hashtgerd new town against a...

Earthquake and Physical and Social Vulnerability Assessment for Settlements: Case Study Avcilar District

In this study, a vulnerability assessment model has been developed for earthquake prone areas in Turkey. The vulnerability assessment model includes ground factors, building's physical conditions, and social (demographic and socioeconomic) aspects of the settlement. This vulnerability assessment model is applied to a case study that of the Avcılar district of Istanbul. Forty different reinforce...

Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Analysis

Electrical power systems consists of various components including physical components such as generator, transmission lines, buses, loads, transformers etc. and discrete components such as protection relays and other supervisory and control devices. Cyber failures in discrete components such as protection devices contribute towards cascading failures resulting in blackouts in electrical power t...

Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake

Vulnerability Assessment of Tehran Municipality District 8 against earthquake

Background and Objective: This study aims at investigating the vulnerability of areas in the eighth municipal district of Tehran. In this research, the indices of distance from fault, maximum earth acceleration, soil permeability, landslide, liquefaction, population density, land use, ground floor area, type of building materials, and age of buildings were identified, examined, and analyzed sta...