THE ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE USGS PAGER PROJECT

摘要

The USGS-PAGER Project is devoted to rapidly assess the consequences of severe earthquakes in the world. To improve the inventory and the vulnerability estimate, USGS made recourse to the EERI World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE) project, a web-based network of experts from around the world. A small group of experts,established by EERI, drafted a simple form to collect information at national level. For each country it was required to select the most significant construction types and to provide both the value of the collapse probability conditional upon seismic intensity and the fraction of population that lives and works in these construction types. Italy participated to the project and the Italian form was filled by the Seismic Risk Office-DPC. Several other research units accepted to participate to the project: RU-Genoa, RU-Naples,RU-Padua, RU-Pavia/Eucentre, RU-Potenza. The paper presents the contribution of the Italian Research Units to the PAGER project, providing an insight into the used methodologies and a comparison of the results.