WHE-PAGER Project: A new initiative in estimating global building inventory and its seismic vulnerability
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Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquake’s Response (PAGER) Project and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE) are creating a global database of building stocks and their earthquake vulnerability. The WHE already represents a growing, community-developed public database of global housing and its detailed structural characteristics. It currently contains more than 135 reports on particular housing types in 40 countries. The WHE-PAGER effort extends the WHE in several ways: (1) by addressing non-residential construction; (2) by quantifying the prevalence of each building type in both rural and urban areas; (3) by addressing day and night occupancy patterns, (4) by adding quantitative vulnerability estimates from judgment or statistical observation; and (5) by analytically deriving alternative vulnerability estimates using in part laboratory testing.
Suggested Citation
Porter, K., Jaiswal, K.S., Wald, D., Greene, M., Comartin, C., 2008, WHE-PAGER Project: A new initiative in estimating global building inventory and its seismic vulnerability, in The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 8 p.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | WHE-PAGER Project: A new initiative in estimating global building inventory and its seismic vulnerability |
| Year Published | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | World Conference on Earthquake Engineering |
| Contributing office(s) | Geologic Hazards Science Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering |
| Country | United States |