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Maqsood, S.T. | Schwarz, J.
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Pakistan has experienced several devastating earthquakes resulting in a large number of casualties and building damage. During the last six years, two damaging earthquakes struck different parts of the country, i.e., 2005 Kashmir earthquake and 2008 Baluchistan earthquake. They have provided an opportunity to assess the building performance under strong earthquakes, and have informed the development of a building inventory database. A comprehensive and accurate database of building inventory is a crucial part of earthquake risk assessment methodology and appropriate definition of building classification leads to a more accurate attribution of building vulnerability. For the present study area in Pakistan, typical building types are identified and, for the first time, a detailed database of the building inventory has been compiled for the country. The distribution of typical building types in all tehsils (administrative regions) of the country has been mapped in Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. The developed database has been validated in six field surveys, carried in selected cities of Pakistan. Results from these field surveys demonstrated the damage cases and identified the damage contributing parameters along with type of failure mechanisms which were observed in the above mentioned events. Furthermore, damage scenarios have been developed to estimate the extent of damage in the study area at micro and macro levels. The study presented here provides useful data layers for earthquake risk assessment at a national level in Pakistan and has a close relation with the recent developments in the field of earthquake risk assessment, i.e., USGS's Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) and the Global Earthquake Model (GEM).
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