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Seismic Risk Analysis: Global Impact & Future Considerations

Explore past earthquakes, direct/indirect effects, and risk assessment. Learn about seismic simulators and reducing seismic risk through vulnerability evaluation. Discuss the impact of natural and technological catastrophes. Analyze the seismic risk components and the potential impact on Lisbon.

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Seismic Risk Analysis: Global Impact & Future Considerations

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  1. Module: Seismicityandseismicrisk (for civil engineers) Mário Lopes (mlopes@civil.ist.utl.pt) Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitectura e Geo-Recursos do Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa Bolonha, 3-6 March 2014

  2. 2.2 – Global impact of earthquakes • Types of earthquake effects: direct and indirect effects • Past earthquakes • Comparison with impact of other natural and technological catastrophes • Risk = hazard x exposition (people and economic assets exposed to seismic damage) x vulnerability • The future – earthquake simulators.

  3. Earthquakes - affectlargeareasof a territory. For instanceseffectsof tsunamis can reach zones manythousandsofkilometersawayfromtheepicenteroftheearthquakethattriggersthe tsunami. Ex: Samatra , 2004 Othertechnologicalor natural events: Explosions – affectsmallerareas Car acidents– uniformlydistributedalong time

  4. Indirect / Directdamage Indirectdamage– damagecauseddirectlybytheearthquake, triggerschainreactionsleading to much more damage. Ex: economicalactivitiesaffectedbydisruptionoftransportationsystemsorlackofsupplyofenergy, waterorgas.

  5. Directdamage- includestotal or parcial collapseofbuildings, lifelines industrial facilitiesandbuilt cultural heritage, humanvictims, deadandwound, as well as phsicologicaltraumas onsurvivors. Imaterial effects– effectsthat are almostimpossible to quantify, for instanceschanges in cultural values, religion, aesthetic, politics, dislocationofpopulation, etc. Ex: Portugal, Azores, 1973, whentheislandsof Pico and Faial losthalfoftheirpopulationafteranearthquake, andTurkey, 1999, as theeconomiclossesworsenedtheeconomicsituation, contributing to a politicalchange later on.

  6. PastearthquakesStatistics (officialstatistics)

  7. Geographicdistributionofearthquakesandvictims causes ofdamage

  8. Observedand future tendencies – increasingpopulation in largecities, manyofthem in earthquakeproneareas in developing countries wherequalityofconstructionisnotreliable increasingnumberofvictims - Increasingeconomicdamagesobserved in developed countries (Northridge, 1994, Kobe, 1995)  lesstoleranceofpublicopinions to economicdamage  more stringentcodes requisites to controleconomicdamage  more emphasisonvariablesthatassesseconomicdamage (displacements) + nonethelessmore economicdamage(?)

  9. Comparison with impact of other natural and technological catastrophes Energyreleased

  10. Mortality rates for severaltypesofcatastrophes for thelast 30 years Earthquakes Draughtsandhunger Floods Hurricanes Landslides Volcanoes Others

  11. Earthquakerisk = Hazard x Exposure x Vulnerability Hazard – probabilityofoccurrenceofearthquakesofcertaincharacteristicisduringcertainperiodsof time Exposure – peopleandbuiltenvironmentexposed to earthquakes Vulnerability – seismicresistanceofthebuiltenvironment Reductionofseismicrisk: Man (engineers) can actuponvulnerability

  12. Seismicsimulators Mathematicaltoolsthatsimulateseismiceventsandevaluatesitseffects Definitionofseismicevent Epicenter Magnitude Seismicsource Wavepropagation Site effects Buildings Otherfacilities Population Vulnerability Evaluationof: damage victims

  13. LNEC earthquakesimulator Scenario: repetitionofthe 1755 earthquakenowadays

  14. LNEC earthquakesimulator Scenario: repetitionofthe 1755 earthquakenowadays

  15. Othertools to predicttheeffectsof future earthquakes: Comparisonswithearthquakesof similar magnitude and epicentral distances in regionsof similar economicdevelopment Conclusions for Lisbon: similar to theonesof LNEC earthquakesimulator

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