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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Earthquake Loss

Earthquake loss estimation is usually performed in terms of a Damage Ratio (DR) which is a ratio of the earthquake damage dollar amount to total value of a building[1]. For a long time, it was associated with a collection of mass inventory data and was based, mostly, on experts' opinions.

Another method is the use of HAZUS, a computerized procedure for loss estimation.

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