Seismic Policy, Operations, and Research Uses for a Building Inventory in an Earthquake-Prone City

Abstract After the 2016 New Zealand Kaikoura Earthquake, the absence of information about the state of buildings in Wellington proved to be a source of significant policy uncertainty. Authorities did not know what damages to expect and therefore how to react, and policies needed to be formulated wit...

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Main Authors: Ken Elwood, Olga Filippova, Ilan Noy, Jacob Pastor Paz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-10-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00313-7