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Using the damage from 2010 Haiti earthquake for calibrating vulnerability models of typical structures in Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

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After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, that hits the city of Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti, a multidisciplinary working group of specialists (seismologist, geologists, engineers and architects) from different Spanish Universities and also from Haiti, joined effort under the SISMO-HAITI project (financed by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), with an objective: Evaluation of seismic hazard and risk in Haiti and its application to the seismic design, urban planning, emergency and resource management. In this paper, as a first step for a structural damage estimation of future earthquakes in the country, a calibration of damage functions has been carried out by means of a two-stage procedure. After compiling a database with observed damage in the city after the earthquake, the exposure model (building stock) has been classified and through an iteratively two-step calibration process, a specific set of damage functions for the country has been proposed. Additionally, Next Generation Attenuation Models (NGA) and \(\hbox {Vs}^{30}\) models have been analysed to choose the most appropriate for the seismic risk estimation in the city. Finally in a next paper, these functions will be used to estimate a seismic risk scenario for a future earthquake.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been developed thanks to the financial support of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), project SISMO-HAITI . Additionally we want to acknowledge the support of the ONEV, the CNIGS (specially Boby Piard), the MTPTC (specially Charles Baguidy), and all the Haitian people and organization which have contributed to the data compilation. We also want to thank to Dr. D. Lang and Dr. E. Erduran for their valuable contributions and the comments of two anonymous reviewers that helped to improve this paper.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    S. Molina

  2. ETSI Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Y. Torres & B. Benito

  3. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain

    M. Navarro

  4. Observatoire National de l’Enviroment et de la Vulnerabilite (ONEV), Ministere de l’Environnement Haitien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    D. Belizaire

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Molina, S., Torres, Y., Benito, B. et al. Using the damage from 2010 Haiti earthquake for calibrating vulnerability models of typical structures in Port-au-Prince (Haiti). Bull Earthquake Eng 12, 1459–1478 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-013-9563-z

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