With rapid population growth over the past 30 years and no significance seismic activity during this period, the unchecked development of the built environment in Bangladesh has been resulted in little resilience to earthquake. Identifying buildings due to this unchecked development that has high vulnerability is of critical importance both for reliable loss estimation as a result of an expecte...

extended abstractthe occurrence of natural disasters such as the earthquake has been threat human life and caused a great deal homelessness and displacement in the cities. in the early stages of dealing with such conditions one of the more important issues that is noticed by the responsible crisis management organizations is the optimum locating for contemporary settlement and organizing the li...

The most costly American earthquake since 1906 struck Los Angeles on 17 January 1994. The magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake resulted from more than 3 meters of reverse slip on a 15-kilometer-long south-dipping thrust fault that raised the Santa Susana mountains by as much as 70 centimeters. The fault appears to be truncated by the fault that broke in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake at a dept...

Visualization is the graphical presentation of information, with the goal of improving the viewer’s understanding of the information contents. As today’s world is getting richer in information, visualization of the information is important for effective communication and decision making. In this study, generation of a 3D city model in CAD environment and its use in a spatial decision support sy...

An integrated damage detection system, which was developed to detect the collapsed buildings due to Kocaeli earthquake, occurred on 17 August 1999, is introduced. The implementation of the system was carried out in a selected area of the city of Golcuk, TURKEY. The developed system is composed of three components: (i) input, (ii) analysis and (iii) output. In the input component, the post-event...

Ancient City of Ray, located at the southern urban part of Tehran province, is one of the best recognized civilization sites in the world. In this study, the past earthquake incidence in Ray was reviewed using hazards united states tool as a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool. hazards united states tool was chosen to estimate the damage on structural and non-struct...