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Empirical seismic vulnerability assessment of Icelandic buildings affected by the 2000 sequence of earthquakes

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dc.contributor Háskóli Íslands
dc.contributor University of Iceland
dc.contributor.author Ioannou, Ioanna
dc.contributor.author Bessason, Bjarni
dc.contributor.author Kosmidis, Ioannis
dc.contributor.author Bjarnason, Jón Örvar
dc.contributor.author Rossetto, Tiziana
dc.date.accessioned 2019-09-18T14:18:25Z
dc.date.available 2019-09-18T14:18:25Z
dc.date.issued 2018-07-18
dc.identifier.citation Ioannou, I., Bessason, B., Kosmidis, I., Bjarnason, J. Ö., & Rossetto, T. (2018). Empirical seismic vulnerability assessment of Icelandic buildings affected by the 2000 sequence of earthquakes. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 16(12), 5875-5903. doi:10.1007/s10518-018-0413-x
dc.identifier.issn 1570-761X
dc.identifier.issn 1573-1456 (eISSN)
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1254
dc.description Publisher's version (útgefin grein)
dc.description.abstract In June 2000, two Mw6.5 earthquakes occurred within a 4-day interval in the largest agricultural region of Iceland causing substantial damage and no loss of life. The distance between the earthquake epicentres and the fault rupture was approximately 15 km. Nearly 5000 low-rise residential buildings were affected, some of which were located between the faults and exposed to strong ground motion from both events. The post-earthquakes damage and repair costs for every residential building in the epicentral region were assessed for insurance purposes. The database is detailed and complete for the whole region and represents one of the best quality post-earthquake vulnerability datasets used for seismic loss estimation. Nonetheless, the construction of vulnerability curves from this database is hampered by the fact that the loss values represent the cumulative damage from two sequential earthquakes in some areas, and single earthquakes in others. A novel methodology based on beta regression is proposed here in order to define the geographical limits on areas where buildings sustained cumulative damage and predict the seismic losses for future sequence of events in each area. The results show that the average building loss in areas affected by a single event is below 10% of the building replacement value, whilst this increases to an average of 25% in areas affected by the two earthquakes. The proposed methodology can be used to empirically assess the vulnerability in other areas which experienced sequence of events such as Emilia-Romagna (Italy) in 2012.
dc.description.sponsorship The authors wish to offer their thanks to the Icelandic Catastrophe Insurance for placing the earthquake loss database and other relevant information at their disposal, and University of Iceland for a research Grant. Ioanna Ioannou and Tiziana Rossetto’s contribution to this study was Funded by the HORIZON2020 Project ‘IMPROVER’ (Grant Number: 653390). Ioannis Kosmidis was supported by The Alan Turing Institute under the EPSRC grant EP/N510129/1 (Turing award number TU/B/000082).
dc.format.extent 5875-5903
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/653390
dc.relation.ispartofseries Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering;16(12)
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Beta regression
dc.subject Sequence of earthquake
dc.subject Empirical vulnerability
dc.subject Seismic loss
dc.subject Building-by-building
dc.subject RC buildings
dc.subject Jarðskjálftar
dc.subject Jarðskjálftaverkfræði
dc.title Empirical seismic vulnerability assessment of Icelandic buildings affected by the 2000 sequence of earthquakes
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dcterms.license This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
dc.description.version Peer Reviewed
dc.identifier.journal Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s10518-018-0413-x
dc.contributor.department Umhverfis- og byggingarverkfræðideild (HÍ)
dc.contributor.department Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UI)
dc.contributor.school Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ)
dc.contributor.school School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI)


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